IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Reserved on : 07th May, 2025 Date of Pronouncement: 28^th May, 2025

1. LPA No.2075 of 2024 (O&M)

State of Haryana and another … Appellants Versus Ramphal Singh and others … Respondents

2. LPA No.2172 of 2024 (O&M)

State of Haryana and others … Appellants Versus Pritam Singh and others … Respondents

3. LPA No.2201 of 2024 (O&M)

State of Haryana and others … Appellants Versus Prem Kumar Bajaj … Respondent

4. LPA No.2338 of 2024 (O&M)

State of Haryana and others … Appellants Versus Baljeet Singh … Respondent

5. LPA No.2895 of 2024 (O&M)

State of Haryana and others … Appellants Versus Subhash Chander and others … Respondents

6. LPA No.3295 of 2024 (O&M)

State of Haryana and others … Appellants Versus Rajbir Singh Kuhar and others … Respondents

7. LPA No.3367 of 2024 (O&M)

State of Haryana and another … Appellants Versus Satpal Singh … Respondent

8. LPA No.84 of 2025 (O&M)

State of Haryana and others … Appellants Versus Ashok Kumar and others … Respondents

9. LPA No.129 of 2025 (O&M)

State of Haryana and others … Appellants Versus Ashwani Sehgal … Respondent

10. LPA No.146 of 2025 (O&M)

State of Haryana and others … Appellants Versus Jaimal Singh and others … Respondents

11. LPA No.382 of 2025 (O&M)

State of Haryana and another … Appellants Versus Ram Niwas … Respondent

12. LPA No.1531 of 2025 (O&M) Reserved on : 21^st May, 2025 State of Haryana and others … Appellants Versus Birender Singh @ Virender Singh and others … Respondents CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJEEV PRAKASH SHARMA HON’BLE MRS. JUSTICE MEENAKSHI I. MEHTA Present Mr. Vivek Chauhan, Additional Advocate General, Haryana, for the appellants in LPA No. 1531 of 2025.

Ms. Shruti Jain Goyal, Senior Deputy Advocate General, Haryana, for the appellants in other cases.

Mr. Harsh Vardhan Shehrawat, Advocate, for respondent no.1-

Caveator in LPA No. 1531 of 2025.

Mr. D.S. Patwalia, Senior Advocate assisted by Mr. A.S. Chadha, Advocate, for the respondents (in LPAs No.2075, 2895/2024 and LPAs No.146 & 84/2025).

Mr. Harsh Vardhan Shehrawat, Advocate and Mr. Ravi Singh, Advocate, for the respondents (in LPAs No. 129 and 84 of 2025).

Mr. S.K. Sharma, Advocate and Mr. Rajat Sharma, Advocate for respondent No.4 (in LPA No.2172 of 2024).

Mr. S.S. Grewal, Advocate for the respondent(s)

(in LPA No.2338 of 2024).

Mr. Rakesh Sobti, Advocate for respondent No.1 (in LPA No.2201 of 2024) and for respondent No.1 (in LPA No.2172 of 2024).

SANJEEV PRAKASH SHARMA, J.

Challenge in the present appeals by the State of Haryana is to the judgment dated 16.02.2024 passed in CWP No. 6452 of 1993 Ramphal and others vs State of Haryana and others, whereby the learned Single Judge allowed the bunch of writ petitions filed by the present respondents. In LPA No. 1531 of 2025 challenge is to the judgment dated 14.08.2024 passed in CWP No. 19748 of 2024, which was also allowed by the learned Single Judge in terms of Ramphal’s case (supra).

2. Brief facts are being taken from CWP No. 6452 of 1993. The petitioners therein stated that they were working as General Foundation Course Instructors (hereinafter to be referred as ‘GFC Instructors’) in different Government Vocational Education Institutes (hereinafter to be referred as ‘VEIs’) in the State of Haryana. Some of them were appointed in 1983 while some have been appointed in 1986, 1988 and 1992. They all possess educational qualifications of M.A. in Sociology or Economics and some of them have passed M.Phil and B.Ed. examination also. They were teaching different subjects of +2 system, which was adopted as part of syllabus for students of Vocational Education Institutions in the State of Haryana. The syllabus has been approved by the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) and the standard is of Government Vocational Educational Institutions of 12^th Class is equivalent to 10+2 course of the Haryana School Education Board.

3. The annual examination of students of +2 Vocational Education Scheme was conducted by the State Co