P. SATHASIVAM, J.

( 1 ) SINCE all the petitioners are challenging the order of termination of their services, passed by the respondents by the following common order all the writ petitions may be disposed of.

( 2 ) FOR the convenience, I shall refer the facts in W. P. No. 5820 of 1994. The said petition is filed by persons numbering about 40, all working at Hindustan Photo Films, Indu Nagar, Ootacamund. According to them, all of them were appointed as trainees (helpers ). The Hindustan Photo Films is a Government of India undertaking and it is an instrumentality of the State. It is amenable to the jurisdiction of this Court, hence, the writ petitions against the respondents are maintainable. It is further contended that even though they were appointed as trainees, the petitioners are performing various clerical work, skilled, unskilled, manual and, technical. They would come within the term employee as defined in the Standing Orders applicable to the petitioners. The petitioners are workmen, as defined in the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 (hereinafter referred to as "the Act" ). They had worked more than 240 days in a calendar year. The petitioners are described as traine