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(Per T. V. Nalawade, J.) . All the petitions are filed for regularization of services of Petitioners, who are working in Central Government Project by name "Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan" (in short "SSA"). The relief of injunction is also claimed to prevent the Respondents from terminating their services. It appears that as against some Petitioners, orders of termination were issued. This Court granted 5 Writ Petitions 9923 of 2014 Others.odt interim relief in favour of Petitioners and due to the interim relief, the Petitioners are still working in SSA.

2 Both the sides are heard.

3 The Petitioners from Writ Petition No.9923 of 2014 (Petitioner Nos.1 to 9) are working as Junior Engineers. Petitioner No.10 is working as Computer Programmer. Some Petitioners from Writ Petition No.1045 of 2015 are working as Senior Account Clerks, as Assistant Programme Officers and as Stenographers. Some Petitioners from Writ Petition No.5851 of 2015 are working as Data Entry Operator, MIS Coordinator, Computer Programmer and one Petitioner is working as the Executive Engineer. Some Petitioners from Writ Petition No.11862 of 2015 are working as District Coordinator, Assistant Program Officers, Driver etc. Thus, the posts involved in the proceedings are of aforesaid different nature. The Petitioners are working in Beed, Latur, Parbhani, Aurangabad, Osmanabad and Hingoli districts in SSA project. Their initial dates of appointments are different but all of them were given appointments on contract basis on consolidated pay. After 6 Writ Petitions 9923 of 2014 Others.odt completion of first contract period, the Petitioners were again engaged on contract basis on the same posts and in all the cases, the consolidated pay was increased from time to time. Very few of the Petitioners had completed the service of aforesaid nature of more than 10 years on the dates of petitions and most of the other Petitioners had recently received appointment orders prior to coming to this Court and those particulars are being given at proper place.

15 The Regulations from Chapters IV to IX are with regard to service conditions. They are with regard to pay, allowance, leave, conduct, discipline and maintaining the record of service. 16 In Appendix 'A' there are different Schedules. Schedule-I is about staffing pattern for State office of autonomous body and the office was to be kept at Mumbai. As the amendment 23 Writ Petitions 9923 of 2014 Others.odt was made, after the introduction of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, this is to be treated as the office of SSA. In Schedule-III, District level staffing pattern for SSA is given and in Schedule-IV Block level staffing pattern for SSA is given. Schedules III and IV of Appendix 'A' show that ordinarily, if no other officer is sent on deputation, the CEO of Zilla Parishad is to act as Chairman of Zilla Karyakarini, District level executive committee. He was to be treated as appointing authority for the posts like Executive Engineer, Junior Engineer, Computer Programmer (MIS Incharge), Accounts Officer, Assistant Programme Officer and Data Entry Operator. The Regulations show that there was option given to create posts of Junior Engineers, if there was necessity of such posts for working in District. However, for such expenditure ceiling was given and the expenditure was not to exceed 3% of the estimated costs of work in the District. If keeping the expenditure below 3% was not possible, the work expected from Junior Engineer could have been got done through the agency of Architects and in that case also such ceiling was to operate.

22 The Government Resolution of 2002 of the State Government shows that the work of implementation of SSA was given to MPSP (which was already created and which was implementing the previous project viz DPEP). 23 In Government Resolution of 2002, for implementing the project, two District level committees were created viz (i) District 34 Writ Petitions 9923 of 2014 Others.odt Committee headed by CEO of Zilla Parishad and he was to act as ex-officio Chairman. The Chairman of all the committees of Zilla Parishads were to be members of the District committee. The Education Officer (Primary) of Zilla Parishad was to act as Secretary of this committee. The work of this committee was to assess the work done by SSA and see that participation of other institution is increased in the implementation. (ii) the District Executive Committee (Zilla Karyakarini). This committee was to take all decisions for implementation of the scheme. The CEO of Zilla Parishad was to act as ex-officio Chairman of this committee also and Education Officer (Primary) was to work as a Secretary of this committee. This committee was to consist of 15 members, who were to be picked up from the District Committee, officers and representatives of the institutions. The Government Resolution shows that other committees were also to be constituted like committee for construction and sub-committee for purchases and education sub-committee. All these committees were expected to function as per the Regulations of 1994 made by MPSP, autonomous body created by the State Government.