of 37 dropped and honorary teachers including the petitioners with the Secretary to the Government of Assam, Education (Elementary) Department for necessary action. The Commissioner and Secretary to the Government of Assam, Education Department vide Memo No. ELC/COP/331/ 2003/581/106 dated 04.08.2005 laid the matter with the authorities of the Bodoland Territorial Council (hereafter referred to as the 'BTC') for taking necessary action as per the existing rules as well as the directions contained in the aforementioned judgment and order of this Court. Subsequent thereto, the Joint Secretary, BTC vide his Memo No. BTC/Edn. (E1). 127/2005/126 dated 12.09.2005 instructed the Director of Education, BTC to move the Government of Assam, Finance (SIU) Department for financial approval/concurrence of vacancies for appointment of the petitioners indicating the availability of posts for them. The proposal was resubmitted by the Director of Education, BTC vide his letter dated 24.04.2006 with the Commissioner & Secretary to the Government of Assam, Education Department reiterating the same request. It was after a lapse of several months that the Commissioner and Secretary to the Government of Assam, Education (Elementary) Department by his order under Memo No. ELC/COP (C)331/ 2003/581/125 dated 02.04.2007 recorded a departure from the earlier decision contained in the letter dated 04.08.2005 observing that as the initial appointments of the petitioners were against non existent posts by the Managing Committees on honorary basis, examination of their cases to ensure that their appointments had been made against existing vacant posts and in accordance with the procedure prescribed by the rules ought to be undertaken. Thereafter, however, vide order No. DE/BTC/KOK/E/CC/10/05/121 dated 26.06.2007 of the Director of Education, BTC, Kokrajhar, their services were regularized at a monthly stipend of Rs. 800/- with the observation that they will get the full scale of pay on successful completion of training as mentioned therein. It was thereafter that by the impugned letter dated 02.07.2007 and the order dated 03.07.2007 their regularization was cancelled. 4. During the pendency of the present proceeding, the Finance Department of the State accorded its approval for the regularization of the services of 37 Assistant Teachers of L. P. Schools including the petitioners appointed against the existing sanctioned posts as proposed by the Director of Education, BTC, Kokrajhar. It is evident from the affidavit-in- opposition filed on behalf of the Finance department through its Commissioner and Secretary, Respondent No. 7. 5. The petitioners by their additional pleadings have brought on record the Educational Policy embodied in the notification dated 09.12.96 adopted by then Bodoland Autonomous Council authority whereunder all of them claim to have been selected against the vacant posts in their respective schools. They however, admitted that though in terms of the said policy, the selection was to be approved by the authorities mentioned therein, most unjustifiably the same had not been accorded. They also complained that their salary had not been released though they had been rendering their services without any blemish. 6. The Secretary of Education, BTC and the Director of Education, BTC in their individual affidavits have pleaded in unison that the petitioners except the petitioner Nos. 9 and 10 namely, Smti. Nina Basumatary and Sri. Shyamal Khaklary could not be considered as dropped teachers in terms of the Government notification dated 21.06.2000 as all of them