Heard counsel for the parties.

2. Petitioners in both the writ petitions were engaged on daily wage basis between 1979 to 1985 in the Water Resources and Irrigation Department under the State of Bihar. As per their case, they were removed in the year 1994. They moved the Patna High Court with a prayer to reinstate them in C.W.J.C. No. 2286 of 1999 (Patna). The learned Single Judge vide judgment dated 8.4.2002(Annexure-13 to W.P.S. No. 5660 of 2003) made an observation by giving liberty to the petitioners to bring the matter to the notice of the Secretary, Water Resources Department, Government of Jharkhand as also the order of the Hon'ble Supreme Court in the case of State of Bihar Vrs. Laghu Sichai Karmchari Sangh and others passed in S.L.P. (Civil) No. 18164 of 1999 (Annexure-12), whereupon the Secretary, Water Resources Department would consider the cases of the petitioners and determine as to whether their cases are governed by the decision of the Hon'ble Supreme Court and the resolution dated 18.6.1993 (Annexure-4) and whether their cases are required to be considered along with those named, as has been called for vide letter no. 10/01 dated 9.10.2001 or not within a per