JUDGMENT

A. S. NAIDU, J. — The petitioners are serving as Lecturers in Aided Educational Institutions of the State. They are neither litigation minded nor litigation is their pursuit. However, the lackadaisical attitude of the authorities has thrust litigation upon them, which they are constraint to pursue willy nilly, by approaching the portals of this Court.

2. The moot point which needs determination in the present case is as to whether validation of services of the lecturers of Aided Educational Institutions in consonance with the provisions of the Orissa Act 14 of 1998 ipso facto entitle them to receive salary cost out of the Grant-in-aid and if so, from which date ?

As the same points have been agitated in number of cases, I dispose of all the cases by this common order.

3. It is submitted by the learned counsel, that the peti¬tioners were appointed as lecturers in different faculties of aided colleges/aided junior colleges, by the concerned Governing Body on temporary basis against approved or admissible posts during the period from 1st January, 1985 to 31st December, 1992 and are continuing in such posts and discharging their duties to the fullest satisfaction of the author