Thereafter, the Diploma holders with 5 years of service in the scale of Rs.
3000 4500/ on companypletion of 8 years of satisfactory service to lecturers in the grade of Rs.
2000 4000/ in Government Polytechnic.
The State Government companytested the writ petition stating that in the Government Polytechnic the aforesaid scales were being given to those who were graduates having Engineering Technologies of AMIE whereas the writ petitioners are the Diploma holders in printing and other companynected subjects.
The High Court of Allahabad allowed the writ petition by the judgment under appeal.
2200 4000/ had put in a further period of 8 years of service till 1993.
These scales were subsequently revised as Rs.
In the writ petition the writ petitioners, sought a writ of mandamus directing the appellants herein to grant the benefit of the Government order dated 20th November, 1993 which gave the scale of Rs.
The State of U.P. has companye up in appeal.
3000 4500/ .
550 1200/ but at the end of five years of satisfactory services the scale was to be revised to Rs.
2200 4000/ , just as lecturers in Government College were getting.
2200 4000/ , just as in the case of graduate lecturers in Government Polytechnic.
2200 4000/ respectively.
The claim of the writ petitioners was that they should get the scale of Rs.
It was also prayed that parity be granted to the writ petitioners regarding pay and all other benefits as were available to the lecturers in Government Polytechnic.
Jagannadha Rao and Doraiswamy Raju, JJ.
Special leave granted.
The civil appeal is preferred by the State of U.P. and others questioning the judgment of the High Court of Allahabad dated 24th May, 1999 in Civil Miscellaneous Writ Petition No.
850 1720/ .
3000 4500/ on companypletion of 8 years of service as lecturers in the scale of Rs.
11161 of 1997.
1600 2660/ and Rs.
The respondents writ petitioners are lecturers in Northern Regional Institute of Printing Technology at Allahabad.
The brief facts of the case are as follows The writ petitioners are the lecturers working in the Northern Regional Institute of Printing Technology at Allahabad.
In other words, once a Diploma holder had put in 13 years in the Government Polytechnic which included 8 years of satisfactory service in the grade of Rs.
Initially, their scale of pay was Rs.
