COMMON ORDER

These writ petitions have been filed challenging the order passed by the Registrar, Anna University dated 28.07.2025, thereby, restricted the extension of the petitioners’ service till 31.08.2025.

2. The petitioners are qualified to be appointed as teaching fellows as per the notification issued by the 2^nd respondent dated 20.06.2011. The petitioners had joined as teaching fellows in the 2^nd respondent college. The 2^nd respondent college is a constituent college of 1^st respondent.

Similar to the second respondent, several other colleges were established at the regional level by the Registrar, Anna University by independent enactments. In the year 2011, a policy decision was taken to merge all those colleges and regional Universities and bring them under one umbrella i.e., the Registrar, Anna University, Chennai by the Tamil Nadu University Laws(Amendment and Repeal) Act, 2011 (Act 20 of 2011). It provides for way and means of accommodating the then existing staff and the assets and liabilities of the merged Universities. Thereafter, the Government constituted a meeting to oversee the merger process. The committee made several recommendations pertaining to the staff engage