COMMON ORDER

The matter is taken up through web hearing.

In all these writ petitions, the petitioners raised common grounds of challenge with identical and common grievances against the action of the 3rd respondent University and therefore, the writ petitions are disposed of by a common order as under.

2. There are two categories of writ petitioners in this batch, one aspiring to be promoted from the post of Assistant Professor to the post of Associate Professor and the other from the post of Associate Professor to the post of Professor. All the writ petitioners are the faculty of the 3rd respondent, the Anna University.

3. Their common grievance in these writ petitions is that with regard to promotion from the post of Assistant Professor to Associate Professor and from the post of Associate Professor to Professor, the University invited applications from the eligible faculty members for consideration of their claim under Career Advancement Scheme hereinafter referred to CAS. According to these petitioners, they had been invited applications vide communication dated 29.06.2017 and 18.07.2017. The petitioners herein, being fully eligible for consideration in terms of the Career Advance