Shanker Raju, Member (J).

1. Having founded on similar facts involving an identical question of law, both these Original Applications are being disposed of by this common order.

2. In these Original Applications, Post Graduate Teachers (for short, PGTs) of Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangthan (for short KVS) have assailed respondents' orders whereby their deputation as Principal has been terminated and they have been repatriated to their substantive post of PGT. Orders passed by respondents terminating the services of the applicants, who had been regularized, have also been assailed.

BACKGROUND FACTS

3. Applicants, who are undisputedly PGTs working in different streams; in the wake of the Recruitment Notice published by the KVS inviting applications on all India basis to fill up the posts of Principal by deputation and also by direct recruitment to clear the backlog vacancies of SCs/STs, applied for the same. The notification inter alia included, as a condition precedent in the matter of selection, written examination and viva voce with a stipulation that selected candidates would be placed on probation for two years, which is extendable by one year. After the recommendations of Selection