VINEET SARAN, J.

1. This appeal has been preferred against the judgment and order dated 7.5.2002 passed by a learned Judge of this Court in Civil Misc. Writ Petition No. 20562 of 1999. The writ petition was filed by 105 retrenched employees of Institute of Engineering and Rural Technology (for short IERT), Allahabad, against the State of U.P. and its officers as well as the IERT, praying for quashing the Government order dated 24.3.1999 by which it was decided that the Training -cum-Production Centre of the IERT be closed down with effect from 31.3.1999 and the workmen employed at the Centre be retrenched after being paid retrenchment compensation. The consequent notice/declaration dated 31.3.1999 issued by the IERT for closure of the Centre had also been challenged. A further prayer for mandamus directing the State-Respondent to absorb the writ-Petitioners in an alternative employment of the State Government or organizations under the State Government had also been made.

2. While allowing the writ petition the learned Judge gave the following directions:

.......The Respondent are directed to prepare a list of the employees who were appointed prior to 1.10.1986 in the produc