Hon’ble Dr. Devendra Kumar Arora, J.—Heard Mr. Ramesh Pandey, learned Counsel for the petitioners and Mr. Prashant Jaiswal, learned Additional Chief Standing Counsel.

2. Through the present writ petition under Article 226 of the Constitution of India, petitioners are seeking a writ of Mandamus for a direction to respondents to make necessary deduction towards General Provident Fund etc. from salary of the petitioners, after completion of probation period in view of the Old Pension Scheme, which was in existence at the time of Notification No. 1 of 2002 dated 27.9.2002 issued by the U.P. Secondary Education Services Selection Board, Allahabad.

3. Shorn off unnecessary details the facts of the case are as under :

Pursuant to the Advertisement No. 1 of 2002 published on 27.9.2002, petitioners had applied and after following due procedure as provided under law, by the U.P. Secondary Education Services Selection Board, Allahabad, they were selected as Assistant Teachers. After selection, in between November, 2004 to December, 2004, the U.P. Secondary Education Services Selection Board, Allahabad allocated the panel of selected candidates including the petitioners to the District Inspectors of Schools of various districts for their appointments. As per panel, petitioner Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 had been allocated to the District Inspectors of Schools of District Baghpat, Mathura, Muzaffar Nagar, Pratapgarh, Ghaziabad, Barabanki and Raebareli, respectively.

4. According to the petitioners, after empaneling, the District Inspector of Schools, Baghpat, vide letter dated 13.12.2004, directed the Manager/Committee of Management, Sri Vidya Mandir Inter College, Chhaprauli, Baghpat, to issue appointment letter to petitioner No. 1-Satyesh Kumar Mishra but the letter of appointment was not issued to petitioner No. 1 and subsequently, on 18.12.2004, Manager/Committee of Management, Sri Vidya Mandir Inter College, Chhaprauli, Baghpat, refused to issue appointment letter to petitioner No. 1. However, on 21.2.2005, the District Inspector of School, Raebareli issued direction to Sri Ganesh Vidyalaya Inter College, Aehar, Raibareli, which is a Government aided College, to issue appointment letter to petitioner No. 1. In compliance of the letter dated 21.2.2005, the Manager/Committee of Management, Sri Ganesh Vidyalaya Inter College, Aehar, Raibareli, issued letter of appointment to the petitioner No. 1 on 16.4.2005. Consequently, the petitioner No. 1 joined as Assistant Teacher in Sri Ganesh Vidyalaya Inter College, Aehar, Raibareli on 16.4.2005.

5. Inso far as petitioner No. 2 is concerned, it has been stated by the Counsel that the District Inspector of Schools, Mathura, vide letter dated 10.11.2004, issued letter to the Manager/Committee of Management, Sri Brij Aadarsh Inter College, Mathura, to issue letter of appointment to petitioner No. 2-Ravindra Bahadur Srivastava but the same was not issued to petitioner No. 2 and, subsequently, vide letter dated 22.1.2005, the issuance of appointment letter was refused by the Manager/Committee of Management, Sri Brij Aadarsh Inter College, Mathura. Thereafter, the District Inspector of Schools, vide letter dated 20.4.2005, directed the Manager, Mahatma Gandhi Inter College, Raebareli to issue letter of appointment to petitioner No. 2. In compliance of the letter dated 20.4.2005, the Manager, Mahatma Gandhi Inter College, Raebareli issued letter of appointment to petitioner No. 2 on 13.5.2005. Similarly, with regards to petitioner No. 3, a direction was issued by the District Inspector of Schools, Muzaffarnagar to the Manager/Committee of Management, D.A.V. Inter College, Oon, Muzaffarnagar for issuance of appointment letter to petitioner No. 3-Chhote Lal but the same was refused by the Manager/Committee of Management, D.A.V. Inter College, Oon, Muzaffarnagar vide letter dated 15.1.2005. Subsequently, petitioner No. 3 was given appointment letter by the Manager, Gayatri Inter College, Rust