JUDGMENT :

Durga Prasanna Choudhury, J.

1. Since the captioned writ applications and writ appeal involve common questions of law, the same are taken up for disposal by this common judgment, with the consent of the parties.

2. The brief details of case of the petitioner in W.P.(C) No. 15410 of 2014 is that, while working as lecturer on contractual basis in the Department of Botany from 2nd May, 2011 to 22nd May, 2014, she applied for a regular post of lecturer in the Department of Life Science, duly advertised by the opposite party- Ravenshaw University. It is further averred by the petitioner that although the petitioner has obtained a Ph. D. degree, she was not shortlisted purportedly on the ground that she has not acquired National Eligible Test (NET) certificate, although the University Grants Commission guidelines very clearly state that a candidate for lecturer who has got Ph. D. degree, can be eligible for the post of lecturer even if she or he has not acquired NET certificate. Moreover, without following the Odisha Reservation of Posts and Service (Socially and Educationa