BACKGROUND FACTS The appellant herein is an Association of Rural Agriculture Extension Officers hereinafter referred to as the Extension Officers .
Rule 3 of the said Rules reads as under Revised Scale of Pay.
Agriculture.
It framed rules in the year 1972.
The State of Madhya Pradesh in exercise of the power companyferred upon it under the Proviso appended to Article 309 of the Constitution of India made rules known as Madhya Pradesh Revision of Pay Rules, 1983.
They are matriculates.
On or about 9.4.1981, the designation of the Village Level Workers was changed to the Rural Agriculture Extension Officer by the State Government.
By reason of the provisions of the said Rules, two different scales of pay were prescribed, namely, Rs.575 880/ for number graduates Dying scale and Rs.635 950/ for fresh recruitment and for existing B.Sc.
They were originally appointed as Village Level Workers.
On companystitution of the Madhya Pradesh State Administrative Tribunal in the year 1988, however, the said writ petition was transferred thereto.
The services of the Village Level Workers were transferred to the agriculture department of the State.
B. SINHA, J Applicability of doctrine of equal pay for equal work is involved in this appeal which arises out of a judgment and order dated 13.4.1998 passed by the High Court of Madhya Pradesh at Jabalpur in Writ Petition No.1550 of 1998.
