JUDGMENT :

Tarlok Singh Chauhan, J.

Since, common questions of law and facts arise for consideration in all these petitions, therefore, they were taken up together for hearing and are being disposed of by a common judgment.

2. Broadly, the prayers made in all these petitions are:

(i) to issue the direction to the respondents to immediately provide consolidated salary/pay scales to the petitioner(s) at par with their counter-parts in other Government schools of visually challenged and with impaired hearing children and extend the benefits of the respondent-State policy/schemes equally to the petitioner(s) for all intents and purposes;

(ii) to issue a direction to the respondents to immediately consider the cases of the petitioner (s) for regularization against their post with effect from the date they completed the requisite years of contractual services in terms of the Government policy with respect to regularization of contractual employees with all consequential benefits;

(iii) to issue a direction to the respondent to count the contractual services of the petitioner(s) towards their regular services with all consequential benefits.”

3. The petitioner(s) is/are/were the employees of an