JUDGMENT :

P.PATNAIK, J.

Relief sought for in the aforesaid writ applications are more or less similar, with the consent of the respective parties all the writ petitions have been heard analogously and are being disposed of in this common order.

2. The petitioners in the aforementioned writ petitions have inter alia prayed for direction to the opposite parties to allow them to continue as Assistant Commuter Operator till their services are regularized as per the contractual appointment scheme, 2013 floated by the Government of Odisha.

3. The brief facts of the case are that in pursuance of the advertisement issued by the Registrar of Odisha University of Agriculture and Technology (in short referred to as ‘OUAT’) for filling up of the post of Assistant Computer Operator ( hereinafter called as “ACO”) on contractual basis, the petitioners applied for the post in the prescribed form and in prescribed manner. After coming through the process of selection they were issued with order of appointment in their favour on 02.01.2015 calling upon them to join the post and accordingly, the petitioners joined on the said posts. Though the nomenclature of the term