JUDGMENT

[ WP(C).3045/2018, WP(C).10835/2017, WP(C).34185/2017, WP(C).1558/2019, WP(C).4729/2019 ]

Dated this the 9th day of April 2021 These writ petitions are filed on behalf of the petitioners, non-teaching staff, claiming the benefit of 8th Pay Revision Commission granted by the Kerala Government after merger of Regional Engineering Center, as National Institute of Technology, whereas the petitioners in W.P.(C) No.34185/2017 are retired employees, who are also claiming the same benefits.

2. All the petitioners in these writ petitions were initially appointed in the Regional Engineering College, Calicut (REC), affiliated to the University of Calicut and were governed by the provisions of the Kerala Service Rules, 1959. In the year 2001, the 4th respondent, Ministry of Human Resource Development decided to convert the Regional Engineering College, Calicut to National Institute of Technology, Calicut and to declare it as a Deemed University under Section 3 of the University Grants Commission Act, 1956 and a society namely National Institute of Technology, Calicut was registered under the Societies Registration Act, 1860, specifying that the terms and conditions of the employees of th