(1.) Heard Mr. R.P. Kakoti, Mr. U.K. Nair, Senior Advocates, Mr. N. Dhar, Mr. A.K. Purkayastha, Mr. P. Kataki, Mr. K. Bhuyan, Mr. R. Dubey, Mr. A.R. Bhuyan, Mr. B.P. Borah, Ms. R. Begum, Mr. A. Ali, Advocates, Mr. J. Abedin (S.C., Secondary Education Department), Mr. I. Alam (S.C., NETE), for the appearing parties in this batch of 28 writ petitions.
(2.) The nature of the challenge in these writ petitions:
(3.) On the facts and points of law urged by the respective counsel, the following two points have come up for determination by the Court in this bunch of writ petitions. They are as under:-