( 1 ) THESE petitions in hand have been filed by the petitioners who have been stagnating in various nagar Nigams/nagar Palika Parishads as Daily wage Class IV employees ever since their induction in the service prior to June, 1991. Since all the petitions are knit together by common cause and have been filed for the common reliefs, they have been heard together for decision as a composite case.

( 2 ) WRIT Petition No. 2093 of 2002, Praveen Kumar v. State of U. P. , is taken up as a leading case to get hang of the substance of the controversy involved in the petitions. The petitioner in the aforestated writ petition, namely, Praveen Kumar had entered the service of the Nagar Palika parishad, Modi Nagar on 8. 1. 1991 as Electrician and ever since then he has been performing his duties assigned to him in the capacity of daily wage employee in unbroken continuity.

( 3 ) I have heard Sarvsri R. C. Shukla, Y. K. Sinha, Neeraj Tripathi and other learned counsel appearing for respective petitioners in the writ petitions taken together for disposal as a composite case.

( 4 ) IN paragraphs 18 and 28 of the writ petition instituted by Sri Praveen Kumar, the petitioner ha