1. Petitioners in this batch of writ petitions, are aggrieved of Government Order No. 1491-Edu.of 2002 dated 31.12.2002 whereby the Incharge Lecturers in the discipline of Mathematics in the Education Department of the State, have been ordered to be regularized with effect from the date they were made Incharge ignoring the claims of the writ petitioners and other persons who claim to be senior to them in the cadre of service both as Masters/ Teachers , the feeding channel for the post of Lecturer.

2. The recruitment to the post of Lecturer is governed and regulated by the Jammu and Kashmir Education (Gazetted) Service Recruitment Rules, 1992. Rule-5 of these Rules reads as under:

5. Qualifications and method of recruitment(1) No person shall be eligible for appointment or promotion to a post in any class , category or grade in the service unless he possesses the qualifications as laid down in Schedule-II appended to these rules and fulfils other requirements of recruitment as provided in the rules and orders for the time being in force.

(2 ) Appointment to the service shall be made:

a) by direct recruitment( which will include appointment by transfer):

b) by promotion; and

c) partly by

Click Here to Read the rest of this document