Huluvadi G. Ramesh, J.

This batch of writ appeals have been filed by the petitioners as well as the respondents in the writ petitions against the respective portion of the order passed by the learned single Judge. While W.A. Nos.1425 to 1434 of 2015 have been filed by the petitioners, W.A. Nos.360 to 369 of 2016 have been filed by the respondents in the writ petition against the order passed by the learned single Judge.

2. The appellants in W.A. Nos.1425 to 1434 of 2016, who are the petitioners, filed the writ petition seeking issuance of a writ of mandamus directing the respondents/authorities to regularise the service of the petitioners by fixing them in the scale of packers regularly employed in the respondent Corporation after making their service permanent with all consequential benefits.

3. The Tamil Nadu Industrial Establishment (Conferment of Permanent Status to Workmen) Act, 1981 (for short 'the Act'), was assented by the President of India on 5.8.1981 and came into force on 01.01.1982. The preamble to the Act applies to factories, plantations, motor transport undertakings, etc., of which the Government may, by notification declare to be an industrial establishment