Vivek Singh Thakur, J.

1. All these petitions, for involvement of issue to be decided on the basis of similar facts and common law, are being decided by this common judgment.

2. Petitioners were appointed by the respondents-departments, i.e. HPPWD and IPH, on various dates during the years 1991 to 1999. Common grievance of the petitioners is that after their initial engagement as daily wagers, they were not permitted to complete 240 days in each calendar year in order to deprive them from benefit of regularization after completion of requisite years of service as per Regularization Po