V. Dhanapalan, J.

The petitioners seek to quash the order dated 13.06.2000 passed by the first respondent Tribunal in O.A. No.658 of 1998 and to consequently direct the respondents 2 to 4 to regularise their services.

2. The petitioners have been employed as Casual Daily Labourers (CDL) in Group D posts for the last two decades in the 4th respondent College (hereinafter referred to as "the College") and have not been conferred permanent status by it despite their repeated representations. In O.A. Nos. 367 to 370 of 1992 filed by some of the CDLs seeking to regularise their services, the Tribunal directed College to absorb the petitioners in regular posts as and when vacancies arise and not to terminate them till such time. Since no response was forthcoming, another batch of applications was preferred in O.A. Nos.1789 and 1799 of 1992 in which the Tribunal directed the College to prepare a scheme for regularisation of the applicants within a period of three months and to fit in them under the said scheme as and when vacancies arise. Consequently, the College, by its order dated 22.03.1994, granted temporary status to 15 CDLs, which included the petitioners also with effect