HARICHANDRA JETHMAL GANDHI Vs. STATE OF MAHARASHTRA

JUDGEMENT

(1.) COMMON, and the only, question involved in these four writ petitions is whether the service rendered by the petitioners therein who are lecturers as Demonstrators or Tutors in which posts they were previously working can be computed in considering the question of their placement in posts of Lecturer (Senior Scale), Lecturer (Selection Grade), and the post of Reader in implementing the G. R. dated 27-2-1989 relating to revision of pay-scales of the teachers of the University and the affiliated Colleges issued by the State Government. These four writ petitions can thus be disposed of by this common judgment. We shall, however, consider the facts and deliver the judgment in Writ Petition No. 927 of 1991, by which the other writ petitions would be governed, since the basic facts in all these writ petitions are the same.

(2.) THE facts in Writ Petition No. 927 of 1991 are that the petitioners therein, numbering 45, were originally appointed in the Colleges affiliated to Nagpur and Amravati Universities as Demonstrators or Tutors. By the G. R. dated 25-10-1977, the posts of Demonstrators and Tutors held by persons who possessed the requisite qualifications for the post of lecturers were upgraded as Lecturers w. e. f. 1-7-1975. At the time when the above G. R. dated 25-10-1977 was issued, the Colleges in which the petitioners were working were all affiliated to Nagpur University as the Amravati University was established later on in 1983 for Amravati, Akola, Yavatmal and Buldhana districts of Vidharbha which were originally within the jurisdiction of Nagpur University. It is not in dispute that the petitioners were all upgraded as Lecturers w. e. f. 1-7-1975 as per the aforesaid G. R. dated 25-10-1977 since they all possessed the requisite qualifications for the post of lecturer.

(3.) IT may be seen that the existing pay scale of the Demonstrator or Tutor at the time when G. R. dated 25-10-1977 was issued, was Rs. 250-15-400 which was revised to Rs. 500-20-700-25-900 as per the aforesaid G. R. dated 25-10-1977. As regards the post of Lecturers, there were three categories of Lecturers viz. (Junior Scale), Lecturer (Senior Scale) and Lecturer (Selection Grade) for whom there existed three different pay-scales at the time when the G. R. dated 25-10-1977 was issued. However, by the G. R. dated 25-10-1977 a common pay-scale of Rs. 700-40-1100-50-1200-EB-50-1600 was prescribed for the post of lecturer.