JUDGMENT :

S.N. Prasad, J.

In all these writ petitions since common issue involved, the same are being disposed of by this common order.

These writ petitions are under Articles 226 and 227 of the Constitution of India preferred by Union of India through its General Manager, East Coast Railway, Bhubaneswar whereby and where under the orders passed by Central Administrative Tribunal, Cuttack Bench, Cuttack on different dates in different original applications has been assailed wherein the learned Tribunal has granted the benefit of upgradation in pay scale under Assured Career Progression Scheme by counting the period of training undergone by the applicants.

2. The brief facts of the case of the opposite parties – applicants in all the cases before the Tribunal was that they have joined the training after following all the formalities and on successful completion they have been taken into the cadre with effect from different dates and thereafter they have been regularized on different dates as Technical Grade-III (Welder).

The applicants have raised their grievance that they be given the benefit of upgradation in pay scale under the scheme formulated by the authorities by counting the per