1. Since common questions of facts and law are involved in all these petitions, therefore, I deem it proper to decide these petitions by this common judgment.

2. Through the medium of these petitions, the petitioners in all these petitions are seeking quashing of Order No.13-SMD of 2015 dated 22.04.2015 issued by Mission Director, ICDS, J&K, respondent No.3 in SWP No.1222/2015, whereby engagements of all stop gap/adhoc Anganwadi Workers and Helpers have been terminated with immediate effect. The petitoners are also seeking a direction to the respondents to allow them to discharge their duties against the posts of Anganwadi Workers and Helpers and also regularize their services on the analogy of similarly situated persons of various other departments of the State Government including the Power Development Department.

3. The facts-in-brief, as projected in these petitions, are that the petitioners being qualified came to be engaged as Anganwadi Workers/Helpers on different dates ranging from 1989 for a specific period and thereafter vide different orders they were allowed to con