05.04.2025
SASHIKANTA MISHRA, J.
All these writ applications involve identical facts
and being together, are disposed of by this common
judgment.
2. All these petitioners had applied for engagement as
Swechasevi Sikhya Sahayak (SSS) pursuant to
advertisement issued on 25.03.2003. Their names did
not figure in the merit list published on 31.07.2003 and
13.08.2003 for which they could not be engaged.
2.1 On 26.09.2003, as per instructions issued by the
Secretary to Government in the Department of School
and Mass Education, the District Collectors, prepared
list of eligible candidates for recruitment of 15682 SSS,
out of the pending applications received pursuant to the
advertisement dated 25.03.2003. The petitioners’ names
found place in the merit list and accordingly, they were
selected. Subsequently, engagement orders being
issued, all of them joined as Sikhya Sahayaks (SS) in
different schools.