1. Since, the issues involved in both the writ petitions are similar in nature, they have been taken up together and a common order is being passed.

2. It has been stated that the petitioners in the above writ petitions have filed the present writ petitions, before this Court, being aggrieved by the order of the second respondent, dated 8.2.2011.

3. It has been stated that the petitioners had been appointed in the various posts in the Sardar Vallabhai Patel International School of Textiles and Management, Coimbatore, during the year 2003-04, on consolidated pay. Thereafter, they had been brought on time scale of pay in the year, 2008, with effect from 1.8.2008. The relevant service details of the petitioners are as follows:

4. It has been further stated that the respondent School had been started for admitting students and for conferring degrees in M.B.A. in Textiles and Post Graduate Diploma in Textiles. It has been started, by the Government of India, as an autonomous body, for imparting education to students specilising in Textiles Management. Apart from the teaching staff, sanctioned non-teaching posts were also created for running the said School.

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