J U D G M E N T

In all these writ petitions the challenge is against Government order, G.O (MS) No.78/2011/Tran, dated 22-12- 2011. Through the impugned order, 1353 provisional Conductors, 729 provisional Drivers, and 392 persons provisional employees in the Mechanical section of the 2nd respondent Corporation was ordered to be regularised, subject to condition that the candidates will be eligible for regularisation only if they have complete 10 years service as on 21-12-2011, and if they fulfils conditions incorporated in the said order.

2. Contention of the petitioners is that they are provisional employees appointed based on recommendation made by Employment Exchanges. But they have not completed 10 years service as required in the impugned Government order. Contention of the petitioner is that the W.P.(c) Nos.504/2012 & conn. cases -2-

employees provisional engaged without recommendations from the Employment Exchange are not eligible to be regularised, as the KSRTC was not empowered to make any temporary appointments otherwise from the lists of candidates sponsored by Employment Exchanges. However, it is noticed that eligible persons were already regularised in service on the basi