Per Aftab Alam, ACJ:

1. The State Government has come in appeal against the judgment and order, dated 16.04.2007 passed by a learned Single Judge, disposing of a large batch of writ petitions with a number of directions. Those writ petitions were filed by `Contract Lecturers (649 in number) seeking directions from the court to the concerned authorities not to discontinue their services at the end of the contract period and, further, to regularize them in service and to give them the same pay scale and other benefits as admissible to regular Lecturers.

2. Before proceeding further it will be useful to say a few words about `Contract Lecturers. As the name suggests, `Contract Lecturers are engaged by the State Government every year on contract basis to do the teaching work in different subjects in different graduate-level Colleges in the State. In this State the academic session (or it would be more accurate, perhaps, to say the classes of the first year of the three years Degree Course) commences from March 15 or (in case of very inclement weather in some years) from April 1. The session comes to end on 31 December. Before the beginning of the session every year, the State Government

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