JUDGMENT :

S. N. Prasad, J.

1. These writ petitions have been taken up together since common issues are involved and as such the same are being disposed of by this common order.

2. The order passed by the Tribunal in various original applications filed in the year 2012, disposed of on 31.10.2014, part of it are under challenge by the applicants to the effect that the financial benefits beyond the period of three years has been denied by the Tribunal placing reliance upon the judgment rendered in the case of Union of India and others Vrs. Tarsem Singh, reported in (2008) 2 SCC (L & S) 765.

3. The brief facts of the case is that the applicants have been appointed as Lecturers in different faculties on ad hoc basis for a period of six month with effect from the date of their joining or till the appointment to the post is made in consultation with the Odisha Public Service Commission, whichever is earlier.

The Governor of Odisha, in exercise of power conferred by Proviso to Clause-3 of Article 320 of the Constitution of India and in super-session of all previous regulations of the State Government, has made the regulation known as the Odisha Public Service Commission (Limitation of Function