1. The Correspondent cum Secretary of Neelambal Subramaniam Higher Secondary School, Suramangalam, Salem has filed all the three petitions. In the first writ petition (W.P.No.7978/2009), the prayer is to set aside the order of the third respondent viz., the Chief Educational Officer, Salem dated 05.08.2008 and his subsequent order dated 05.12.2008 in so far as it relates to surrendering the two posts of Secondary Grade Teacher of the petitioner school to the Director of School Education.

2. In the second writ petition (W.P.No.7979/2009), the prayer is to set aside the order dated 18.08.2007 passed by the Chief Educational Officer, Salem, wherein the staff's strength for the year 2007-2008 was fixed on the basis of the requirement of the petitioner school.

3. The third writ petition (W.P.No.7980/2009) is filed challenging the order dated 17.09.2008 passed by the Chief Educational Officer, Salem in fixing the staff strength vide order dated 17.09.2008 along with the revised order dated 03.12.2008.

4. All the three writ petitions were admitted on 28.04.2009. Pending the writ petitions, in the applications for grant of interim stay, only notice was ordered in all the three m