1The petitioners respectively are working as Deputy Director of Collegiate Education, Kottayam and Principal, Government College, Elerithattu. The Original Petition has been filed praying that Ext. P10 order of the Government dated 10-03-2003 is to be set aside and the respondents are not to revise the seniority list of Selection Grade Lecturers, and for a declaration that respondents 3 to 14 are entitled to be placed in the seniority list of Selection Grade Lecturers only on the basis of their date of conferment of status of Senior Scale Lecturers, as per the UGC norms.

2By the impugned order, the Government had accorded sanction to refix the seniority of II Grade Professors, who are the said respondents. This was to the disadvantage of the petitioners. The seniority of the petitioners vis - a - vis the said respondents had been finally settled in 1995, However, a writ petition came to be filed by the third respondent, and certain directions came to be passed. As follow up procedure, Government had accorded sanction to refix the seniority. Though the petitioners had been appointed as Lecturers earlier than the said respondents, the latter group had gained a march over them because