SEO SHANKAR CHAUDHARY Vs. STATE OF JHARKHAND

JUDGEMENT

(1.) HEARD the counsel for the parties.

(2.) THE petitioners are aggrieved by the fixation of their pay scale i.e. the scale of Rs. 2550 -3200/ - petitioners case is that they were appointed in Class - IV post as Chaukidar/Peons on different dates in between 1979 and 1989. All the petitioners were given first time bound promotion in the years 1991/1993 and were placed in the pay scale of Rs. 800 -1150/ -. In terms of the resolution dated 8.2.99 the pay scale of Rs. 800 -1150/ - was revised to Rs. 2610 -35540/ -. In spite of the said resolution, instead of fixing the pay scale of the petitioners in the revised pay scale of Rs. 2610 -3540/ -, the respondents have illegally placed the petitioners in the pay scale of Rs. 2550 -3200/ -.

(3.) LEARNED counsel for the respondents has drawn my attention to Schedule -III of the said resolution and submitted that the pay scale of the orderly peons was Rs. 775 -1025/ - which correspondence to the revised pay scale of Rs. 2550 -3200/. Paragraph 11 of the said resolution by which the pay scale of the Government employees has been revised is worth to be quoted hereinbelow :