M. Sathyanarayanan, J.

1. The respondents 2 to 4 in W.P.Nos.28312 and 23087/2012 are the appellants. The private respondents in these appeals/petitioners in the writ petitions made a challenge to the order dated 01.10.2012 with regard to Performance Assessment Process to facilitate the movement of eligible and qualified faculty members who have joined prior to 18.08.2009 as Assistant Professors to the post of Associate Professors and also praying for implementation of Career Advancement Programme to all of them in accordance with the proceedings of the first respondent dated 30.12.2009 and both the writ petitions came to be allowed, after contest, by a common order dated 27.08.2013 and challenging the same, the present writ appeals are filed.

2. Facts leading to the filing of these writ petitions have been narrated in detail in the impugned common order passed in the writ petitions and therefore, it is unnecessary to restate the same except to state few facts, in brief, necessary for the final disposal of these writ appeals:

2.1. The private respondents are working as Assistant Professors in the services of the Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design and Manuf