( 1 ) PETITIONERS of the first two writ petitions, who were enlisted as daily-rated employees in the public Works Department and the Minor Irrigation Department of the Government of U. P. respectively, have invoked the procedure of this Court for the (win reliefs of mandamus to the respondents to regularise their services in their respective posts and to pay equal salary to them as admissible to the regular employees of the department performing similar duties.

( 2 ) THE facts wrapped in brevity, are that the petitioners of Writ Petition No. 13197 of 1996 were allegedly appointed as class IV employees on daily wages on different dates between 1985 and 1989. The petitioners of Writ Petition No. 13246 of 1996 too entered the service as helpers allegedly on daily wages on different dates between 1982 and 1992. The third Writ Petition No. 14281 of 1998 instituted by Jal Vigyan Anusandhan Karamchari Union. Bahadurabad and five others, seeks the relief of mandamus commanding the respondents to regularise the services of the members of petitioner No. 1 from the date of their initial appointments in the Irrigation department of the Government of U. P. and pay them the salar