JUDGMENT A.N. Varma, J. - This petition is typical of a spate of litigations which is coming to this Court in the shape of writ petitions praying for a writ of mandamus directing the District Inspector of Schools of the concerned distinct to pay salary to ad hoc teachers for the period beyond 30th of June following the date of their appointment. The question raised in this petition is being disposed of after hearing learned Counsel for the Petitioners as well as the learned Standing Counsel. 2. The Petitioners' grievance is that even though the U.P. Secondary Education Services Commission has not recommended any candidate for appointment under the U.P. Secondary Education Services Commission and Selection Boards Act, (U.P. Act No. v. of 1982), the District Inspector of Schools has stopped payment of salary to the Petitioners on the ground that their ad hoc appointment made u/s 18 of the aforesaid Act has automatically come to an end on the 30th of June following the date of such ad hoc appointment in virtue of Clause (c) of Section 18(3) of U.P. Act No. v. of 1982. The Petitioners assert that they have been validly appointed u/s 18 as ad hoc teachers and their ad hoc appointment having received the approval of the District Inspector of Schools their ad hoc appointment should be deemed to be continuing till a candidate recommended by the Commission or the Board, as the case may be, joins the post. It is further asserted that no teacher has yet been selected by the Commission or, if selected, joined the post held by the Petitioner. That being so, it is urged, the District Inspector of Schools should continue to pay salary to the Petitioners even beyond 30th of June following the date of their ad hoc appointment. 3. The learned Standing Counsel, on the other hand, submitted that upon plain terms of Clause (c) of Section 18(3) the ad hoc appointment of the Petitioners must be deemed to have terminated on the 30th June following the date of such appointment and this is so even if no candidate has been selected or recommended by the Commission for substantive appointment. 4. 4. Before we proceed to consider the validity of the above submissions It will be necessary to have a look at the relevant statutory provision, namely, Section 18 of the aforesaid Act which provides: 18 Ad hoc Teachers-(1) Where the management has notified a vacancy to the Commission in accordance with the provisions of this Act, and (a) the Commission has failed to recommend the name of any suitable candidate for being appointed as a teacher specified in the Schedule within one jeer from the date of such notification ; or (b) the post of such teacher has actually remained vacant for more than two months, then the management may appoint by direct recruitment or promotion, a teacher on purely ad hoc basis from amongst the persons possessing qualifications prescribed under the Intermediate Education Act, 1921 or the regulations made there under. (2) The provisions of Sub-section (1) shall also apply to the appointment of a teacher (other than a teacher specified in the Schedule) on ad hoc basis with the substitution of the expression Board ' for the expression ' Commission.' (3) Every appointment of an ad hoc teacher under Sub-section (1) oi Sub-section (2) shall cease to have effect from the earliest of the following dates, namely ; (a) when the candidate recommended by the Commission or the Board, as the case may be, joins the post ; (b) when the period of one month referred to in Sub-section (4) of Section 11 expires ; (c) thirtieth day of June following the date of such ad hoc appointment. It appears that when the legislature had enacted Section 18 of the Act it was not anticipated that the process of selection would be unduly delayed and would not be concluded even upto 30th of June following the date of such ad hoc appointments. However, as it is frequently happening the Commission is unable to complete the selection or recommend a candidate for substantive appointment against the post held by tfre ad hoc appointee even after 30th of June following the date of ad hoc appointment. In some cases, we have noticed that 30th June following the date of ad hoc appointment has intervened more than once as a regular candidate was not selected for up to nearly two years or so. In some cases, we have noticed that 30th June following the date of ad hoc appointment has intervened more than once as a regular candidate was not selected for up to nearly two years or so. In all such cases the District Inspector of Schools stops paying salary to teachers on the ground that the ad hoc appointment does not survive after 30th June following the date of appointment relying on Clause (c) of Section 18(3). In Committee of Management of Sanatan Dharm Intermediate College, Daulatpur District Manipuri v. Distt. Inspector of Schools, Manipuri 85 Edu.Cas 322, a Division Bench of this Court had occasion to consider the legal implications of such a situation. It observed that the legislature could not have intended that the management should repeat the exercise of making an ad hoc appointment of a teacher u/s 18 on the expiry of 30th June following the date of such ad hoc appointment even though the Commission has not recommended the name of any candidate for substantive appointment. We also think that if the services of a teacher validly appointed u/s 18 have not been terminated after such ad hoc appointment or if the Commission has not recommended the name of any candidate for substantive appointment the initial appointment made by the management with the approval of the District Inspector of schools u/s 18 should be deemed to have been renewed by the management upon the expiry of 3oth June following the date of appointment on each occasion. We are clearly of the opinion that the legislatures cannot have intended that the same exercise as was involved in the initial ad hoc appointment u/s 18 should be repeated on the expiry of 30th June following the date of appointment. The District Inspector of Schools will, therefore, not be justified in stopping payment of salary to a teacher validly appointed u/s 18 merely because of the fact that 30th June following the date of appointment has elapsed even though the Commission may not have, in the meantime, recommenced the candidate for appointment to the post held by the ad hoc appointee. This is the only way in which Sub-section (3) of Section 18 can be reasonably construed and the various Clauses (a) to (c) of Sub-section (3), reconciled. Any other construction would clearly lead to wholly unnecessary harassment to the teachers validly appointed u/s 18 of the Act. 5. This is the only way in which Sub-section (3) of Section 18 can be reasonably construed and the various Clauses (a) to (c) of Sub-section (3), reconciled. Any other construction would clearly lead to wholly unnecessary harassment to the teachers validly appointed u/s 18 of the Act. 5. Although the Division Bench in the case mentioned above has given several other reasons for arriving at the same conclusion we would prefer to rest our decision solely on the ground mentioned above, namely, that on a true and proper construction of Section 18 the management must be deemed to have removed the ad hoc appointment of the teacher on the expiry of 30th June following the date of such ad hoc appointment where the services of the teacher initially appointed u/s 18 have not been terminated in accordance with law or the Commission has failed to recommend the name of any suitable candidate for being appointed as a teacher. 6 The District Inspector of Schools should, therefore, treat the teachers validly appointed on ad hoc basis u/s 18 as continuing in service and pay salary to them notwithstanding the expiry of 30th June following the date of appointment itll the services of such ad hoc teachers are terminated in accordance with law. Till the candidate recommended by the Commission or the Board 'ions the post or the date mentioned in Clause (b) of Sub-section (3) of Section 18, whichever may be the earliest. The sand taken by the District Inspector of Schools to the contrary seems clearly untenable. 7. In the result, the petition succeeds and is allowed. The District Inspector of Schools (Respondent No. 1) is directed to treat the Petitioner as continuing in service till his services are terminated in accordance with la A- or a candidate recommended by the Commission or Board joins tube post held joy the Petitioner or the expiry of the date mentioned in Clause (b) of Section 18(3) of U.P Act No. v. of 1982, whichever is the earliest of these eventualities and pay salary to him accordingly, notwithstanding the expiry of 30th June following the date of such ad hoc appointment. The parties shall bear their own costs.