JUDGMENT

M S Ramachandra Rao, J. - This Writ Petition raises issues as to legality of :

(i) action of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) adopting "outsourcing of employees" as a method of engaging services of the petitioners as Sanitary Supervisors (SFA), Sanitation Workers, Entomology Field Workers, Entomology Superior Field Workers, Supervisors (EFA), Superior Field Assistants on Fixed Wages,

(ii) claim of petitioners for regularization of their services in the GHMC in the said posts in the GHMC, and

(iii) action of GHMC in denying them minimum of time scale of pay attached to each of the posts while utilizing the services of the petitioners in the said capacities through outsourcing Agencies.

2. There is no dispute that all the petitioners are engaged by GHMC on outsourcing basis since 2008, 2010 and 2011 and their wages were being paid through various outsourcing agencies.

3. The petitioners have arrayed in this Writ Petition, the State of Telangana represented by Principal Secretary, Municipal Administration as the 1st respondent, and the GHMC as 2nd respondent.

The contentions of the petitioners

4. It is the contention of the Writ petitioners that they have bee