ORDER :

Satyen Vaidya

By way of instant petitions, petitioners have prayed for grant of benefit of regularization of their services w.e.f. 1.4.2018. Since common questions of facts and law are involved, all these petitions are being decided by a common judgment.

Brief facts necessary for adjudication of the case are as under:

1. PETITIONER’S CASE

(i) The facts in CWP 342 of 2021 are being considered hereunder for the sake of precision and also to avoid prolixity.

(ii) Petitioners were appointed in 2006-07 against the posts of Lecturers School Cadre/ Lecturer School (New)/PGTs under a scheme formulated by the State Government known as Grant-in-aid to Parent Teachers Association Rules 2006 (for short, ‘2006 Rules’).

(iii) State Government vide Notification dated 16.08.2013 decided to take over of services of petitioners on contract basis. Such decision became subject matter of challenge through Civil Writ Petitions filed before this Court. However, the controversy was set at rest by Judgment dated 9.12.2014 passed by a Division Bench of this Court ruling in favour of Government’s decision and thereafter way was cleared for taking over of services of teachers on contract basis.

(iv) Services