JUDGMENT :

SHREE PRAKASH SINGH, J.

1. Heard learned counsels for the petitioners, Sri Shailendra Kumar Singh, learned Chief Standing Counsel, Sri Vivek Kumar Shukla, learned Additional Chief Standing Counsel for the State and perused the records.

2. Notices to the concerned respondents, other than the State, are hereby dispensed with.

3. The bunch of petitions have been preferred by the petitioners assailing their respective rejection orders, mainly on the ground that they were entitled to be considered and to be regularised, under the provision of Section 33-G of the UP Secondary Education Service Selection Board Act, 1982 (hereinafter referred to as ‘Act, 1982’) but the benefits under the aforesaid provisions have been declined to them.

4. The provision of Section 33-G of the Act 1982 is extracted as under:

“33-G (1) Any teacher, other than the Principal or the Head Master, who:

(a) was appointed by promotion or by direct recruitment in the lecturer's grade or trained graduate grade on or after August 7, 1993 but not later than January 25, 1999 against a short term vacancy in accordance with paragraph 2 of the Uttar Pradesh Secondary Education Services Commission (Removal of Difficultie