1. C.M.A.No.540 of 2010 has been filed by the Tamil Nadu Transport Corporation challenging the common award dated 31.7.2009 passed in M.C.O.P.No.98 of 1999 on the file of the Motor Accidents Claims Tribunal (IV Additional Sub Court), Madurai.

2. All the Civil Miscellaneous Appeals and the Civil Revision Petitions arise out of common award. The facts of all the cases are one and the same as they arise out of the same accident. Hence, all the 40 Civil Miscellaneous Appeals and 20 Civil Revision Petitions are taken up together and disposed off by this common judgement by consent as the most claimants have filed for withdrawal of award amount stating that they are in dire need of money.

3. The facts of all the cases in brief is as follows:- The unfortunate accident in all the cases happened on 28.2.1998 at about 8.00 a.m. on the Madurai-Theni Main Road. The accident happened between two buses. The first bus bearing Registration No.TCS 423 belongs to the Theni Melapettai Hindu Nadar Uravinmurai Matriculation Higher Secondary School (hereinafter referred to as “the school bus”) and the second bus bearing Registration No.TCB 4250 belongs to Pandian Roadways Corporation, now cal