After Government decided that the pay scale of Muharrirs, working in the Regional Offices under the Irrigation and Waterways Department and in the Regional Offices of the Land and Land Reforms Department, would be revised from Rs.180 350/ to Rs.230 425/ with effect from 1.4.70 subject to the companydition that there would be numberarrear adjustment of salary prior to February 1978 and that their pay in the revised scale of Rs.230 425/ would be fixed under the provisions of WBS ROPA Rules, 1970.
This appeal by special leave arises from the Division Bench judgment dated 3rd September, 1993 of the Calcutta High Court in Matter No.6332 of 1988.
As a companysequence, the posts of Muharrirs have been redesignated as Lower Division Clerks.
Another order dated December 13, 1989 reads as under The Governor has been pleased to decide that all the existing posts of Muharrirs, L.R. Act Muharrirs and Copyists held by a person having passed in School Final or its equivalent as the minimum educational qualification and excepting those of the above mentioned posts which are held by persons number having the educational qualification of School Final or its equivalent in the Registration Offices will be designated as posts of Lower Division Clerk.
It has been recommended elsewhere the existing posts of Moharrirs should, as far as possible, be companyverted into posts of Lower Division Clerks.
Acting thereon, the Government issued two orders.
The First Pay Commission had recommended in this behalf thus The scale of pay of Lower Division Clerk is Rs.125 200/ and that of Moharir Rs.100 140/ .
This order takes effect from 1.7.89 and henceforth all such new posts to be created to the Registration Offices will be designated as Lower Division Clerk.
The revised scale recommended for these posts is the revised scale recommended for Lower Division Clerks in District Officers.
Subsequently, due to spate of litigation Moharrirs were redesignated as Lower Division Clerks.
These scales of pay were number disputed.
Leave granted.
Admitted facts are that Moharrir in the Collectorate of Nadia etc.
was initially a feeder post for promotion to the post of Lower Division Clerk.
