Relying on the said letter dated 25.03.1991 of the Superintendent Engineer, GNDTP, Bhatinda, the respondents Sub Fire Officers submitted various representations to the appellant Board requesting for higher pay scale on the ground that the pay scale to the post of Sub Fire Officers in the Punjab State Government Department i.e. Fire Protection Department is Rs.1800 3200 and therefore, the respondents Sub Fire Officers working in the appellant Board are also to be given same scale of pay.
Being aggrieved, the appellant Board is before us.
Group XII of the Punjab State Electricity Board.
The pay scale of the post of Sub Fire Officers was Rs.225 500 which was revised with effect from 01.01.1978 to Rs.620 1200.
A recommendation letter dated 25.03.1991 was written by the Superintendent Engineer, GNDTP, Bhatinda to the Chief Engineer, GNDTP, Bhatinda to companysider the case of the Sub Fire Officers to grant scale of pay on par with Head Clerks and Internal Auditors stating that there will number be much financial burden, if the pay scales of Sub Fire Officers are revised equal to other categories as only five number of posts of Sub Fire Officers exist at GNDTP, Bhatinda and RTP, Ropar.
Head Clerks, Head Clerk cum Divisional Accountants and Internal Auditors were revised.
Thereafter, by an order dated 21.03.1989, the pay scale for the post of Sub Fire Officers was revised to Rs.1640 2925 with effect from 01.01.1986 along with the pay scales of other category of employees of the Board viz.
Likewise, by the same order dated 03.10.1990, the pay scale of the Internal Auditors was revised to the scale of Rs.1800 3200 but the pay scale of the Sub Fire Officers was number revised on par with Head Clerks and Internal Auditors.
Subsequently, by an order dated 03.10.1990, the pay scale of Head Clerks was revised from Rs.1640 2925 to Rs.2000 3500 on the recommendation of the Pay Anomaly Committee.
Brief facts of the case are as follows Signature Not Verified Respondents were inducted into the service of the Punjab Digitally signed by State Electricity Board PSEB in the year 1978 and number they are MADHU BALA Date 2019.01.08 164930 IST Reason working as Sub Fire Officers in the appellant Board.
The appellant Board being an autonomous body governed by its own regulations, it was for the Board to classify its employees posts on the basis of qualifications, duties and responsibilities of the posts companycerned.
BANUMATHI, J. Leave granted.
This appeal arises out of the judgment dated 28.09.2010 passed by the High Court of Punjab and Haryana at Chandigarh dismissing the LPA No.713 of 2010 on the ground that the respondents Sub Fire Officers are entitled to parity of scales of pay as the pay scale granted revised to other classes of posts within same group viz.,
