JUDGMENT :

1. The petitioners in all these petitions, who are post-graduate and more in different subjects, were engaged as Subject Specific Teachers (“SSTs for short”) under Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan, (“RMSA for short”). The aforesaid scheme is now subsumed and covered under Smagra Siksha scheme.

2. The petitioners, as is the case set up by them, were engaged/hired to provide SSTs for 110 up-graded High Schools, purely on contractual basis for one year on different dates indicated in the orders of their provisional engagement issued by the State Project Director, RMSA. The engagement was contractual in nature and for a period of one year on consolidated salary of Rs.30,283/- per month. The initial contractual engagement of the petitioners came to an end after the expiry of period of one year, however, vide Government Order No. 222-Edu of 2019 dated 09-07-2019, the Government accorded sanction to the temporary re-hiring of 550 SSTs for 110 High Schools upgraded under RMSA, who had already rendered their services during the year 2019, up to 30-06-2019, for one month, purely on contract basis from 10-07-2019 to 10-08-2019 in winter zone and from 15-07-2019 to 15-08-2019 in su