JUDGMENT :

(Shree Prakash Singh, J.) :

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

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

3. Core legal issues are common in all bunch of the writ petitions, hence, the members of Bar were invited to address and all these writ petitions are decided by common Judgment and order.

4. Chronic cases are brought before this Court by way of the bunch of the writ petitions wherein the petitioners have assailed their respective orders of rejection of regularisation, which were passed by the Committee headed by the Joint Director of Education of respective regions.

5. The crux of the issue is that the petitioners were appointed either under the Second Removal of Difficulties Order framed under the Act No.5 of 1982 or under unamended Section 18 of Uttar Pradesh Secondary Education (Service Selection Boards) Act, 1982 (hereinafter referred to as 'the Act 1982'. Subsequently, vide the UP Act No.7 of 2016, a new Section 33-G is inserted with effect from 22.3.2016, thus, it was