1. These two writ petitions have been filed by one and the same petitioner. In the first one, the petitioner has challenged Government order No. 26-Edu of 2016 dated 02.02.2016 whereby the Government in the School Education Department, on a review of attachments/deployment of staff in the School Education Department, inter alia, ordered repatriation of the officers/officials working in the Project Directorate of SSA over and above its sanctioned strength. The petitioner has prayed that respondents, more particularly respondent No. 3 (Project Director, SSA, J&K at Jammu), be prohibited from acting on the aforesaid Government order and be directed to allow the petitioner to continue in his department as per order dated 21.07.2014. In the second writ petition, the petitioner has challenged order No. 123/DSEK of 2016 dated 03.02.2016 issued by respondent No. 2, the Director, School Education, so far as it pertains to him, with further prayers almost identical to the ones made in the first writ petition.

2. The petitioner, a Master in the Education Department and holding the designation of Incharge Headmaster, is stated to be the Union President of Employees Joint Action Committe