1. Challenging the correctness of the impugned notification issued by the Madurai Kamaraj University in Advertisement Nos.R 35 to 52/MKU/DDE/2013 made in publications dated 27.04.2013 and 28.04.2013, treating each department in the Directorate of Distance Education as a single unit, these writ petitions have been filed to quash the same with the consequential direction to the respondents to consider the vacancies in the Directorate of Distance Education as a single unit and thereupon to work out the roster for reservation and re-advertise the vacancies in the 2nd respondent/Directorate of Distance Education, within the time to be stipulated by this Court.

2. Mr.T.Lajapathi Roy, learned counsel appearing for the petitioners in all these writ petitions, heavily assailing the impugned advertisement calling for applications for recruitment to the posts of Assistant Professor to various departments in the 2nd respondent/Directorate of Distance Education (hereinafter referred to as DDE), termed the approach adopted by the Madurai Kamaraj University as highly arbitrary, as the said approach is against the statues of the 1st respondent/Madurai Kamaraj University (hereinafter ref