Judgement

S. PANDA, J. :- On the submission of the petitioners in the above noted batch of the writ petitions, all the cases were taken up for analogous hearing on the ground that common question of law is involved. Therefore, this common judgment shall abide the result in all the writ petitions. It may be noted here that two of the writ petitions, out of aforesaid batch of cases, viz. W.P. (C) Nos. 10295 of 2003 and 5803 of 2004 are the disputes of different footing and, therefore, they are being separately dealt with in this judgment for their effective disposal. Focus of attention of the parties is that the Orissa Education (Payment of Grant-in-Aid to High Schools, Upper Primary Schools, etc.) Order, 2004 (in short, 'G.I.A.'). That order came into force w.e.f. February, 5th, 2004 as per the Orissa Gazette (Extraordinary) No. 191 dated 5-2-2004.

2. In short, theme and substance of the contentions of the petitioners in each of the writ petitions, is stated below :

W.P. (C) No. 10295 of 2003 :-

Petitioner, a teaching staff of Gopinath Dev High School Rasulgarh in the district of Khurda has filed this writ petition with the claim of grant-in-aid, which has been refused to him by the Sta