Some of them made payments accordingly.
They, therefore, submitted that there was a monetary loss to the old entrants in the category of Work Inspectors Grade II, and there should be a revision of their scales of pay to get rid of this anomaly.
The post of Junior Work Inspectors was given the pay scale of Rs.90 200 with effect from 1.9.1971.
The Government thereafter companysidered the question of granting to the Junior Work Inspectors pay scale of Rs.120 240.
It was recommended by the Chief Engineer C B Bangalore that the Government should sanction a revised scale of pay of Rs.80 2 90 3 120 4 140 5 145 with effect from 1.1.1970 in respect of the old entrants.
Prior to 1.9.1971 in the work charged establishment of the Public Works and Electricity Department of the Karnataka Government there were several categories of posts available to the supervisory staff.
It also companysidered the direction given by the Karnataka Administrative Tribunal in its order of 29.9.1988 as also the earlier order of the Government in companynection with Work Inspectors old entrants dated 23.4.1980.
Therefore, by an order dated 11.4.1989 issued by the Chief Engineer, it was directed that the Junior Work Inspectors should be granted the pay scale of Rs.90 200 and that the scale of pay of Rs.120 240 to Junior Work Inspectors should be cancelled and the arrears paid should be recovered.
All these posts, after being reclassified as Senior Work Inspectors with effect from 1.9.1971 were given the new pay scale of Rs.120 240.
It was represented on behalf of the Mangalore circle employees that originally with effect from 1.9.1964 the pay scale of Work Inspectors Grade II, carried the pay scale of Rs.55 2 75 3 90 for old entrants and the pay scale of Rs.55 1 65 2 75 for new entrants.
Prior thereto, the various Junior Work Inspectors had filed applications before the Karnataka Administrative Tribunal, Bangalore in 1986 and 1988 for giving them the same pay scale as that given to the Work Inspectors in the Mangalore circle.
Some of the posts were clubbed together and reclassified as the post of Senior Work Inspectors.
The present appeal is filed on behalf of Junior Work Inspectors in the work charged establishment of the Public Works Department of the Karnataka Government.
numbered that there was an earlier litigation on the same question which was disposed of by the Karnataka Administrative Tribunal on 29.9.1988 where the Junior Work Inspectors had asked for the same scale of pay as given to the old entrants in the Mangalore circle Mahadev Ors.
Thereafter the respondents passed the impugned order dated 27.11.1989 rejecting the proposal to sanction a higher pay scale of Rs.120 240 for all Work Inspectors whether junior or senior with effect from 1.9.1971.
Thereafter representations were received from the Mangalore circle of the Public Works Department relating to certain anomalies which had arisen in respect of the staff under the Mangalore circle.
These posts included the posts of Maistries, Work Inspectors, Karkoons, Road Inspectors, Augur Measurer, Labour Maistries, Gang Maistries and so on.
When the pay was revised with effect from 1.1.1970 as per Government order dated 7.7.1970, a companymon scale of pay of Rs.65 1 70 2 95 was sanctioned for both the old entrants and the new entrants.
Immediately thereafter a number of other applications filed on behalf of Junior Work Inspectors of the work charged establishment came up for companysideration before the Karnataka Administrative Tribubnal.
By a Government order dated 20.9.1971 the Government reclassified various posts in the work charged establishment of the Public Works Department with effect from 1.9.1971 into two categories.
It seems that this order of 23.4.1980 was misunderstood by some of the Executive Engineers and Assistant Executive Engineers as extending the scale of pay of Rs.120 240 to Junior Work Inspectors also, while in fact, the Junior Work Inspectors were given the pay scale of Rs.90 200.
The old entrants represented that as a result of this companymon scale of pay which was given, their increments were substantially reduced under the revised scales of pay.
Ultimately, by an order of 23.4.1980 the Government directed that the Work Inspectors Grade II old entrants of Mangalore circle be assigned the scale of pay of Rs.120 240 with effect from 1.9.1971.
These posts were posts which, prior to 1.9.1971, carried the pay scale of Rs.90 3 105 4 145 EB 5 200.
By the same order a number of other posts which carried, prior to 1.9.1971, the pay scale of Rs.65 95 were clubbed together and reclassified as Junior Work Inspectors.
All these applications were heard together and by a judgment and order dated 29th of September, 1988 the Tribunal directed the State Government to take a decision on the question within a period of three months.
Mrs. Sujata V. Manohar, J. This is an appeal from a judgment and order of the Karnataka Administrative Tribunal dated 4.9.1992 in various applications including Application No.16 of 1990.
By the said judgment and order the Tribunal dismissed the application of the appellant and upheld the legality of an order of the Karnataka Government dated 27.11.1989 by which the Government rejected the representation of the appellant for grant of a pay scale equal to the pay scale of Senior Work Inspectors to all the Junior Work Inspectors who were members of the appellant association.
By that order the Government also directed recovery of excess salary paid to Junior Work Inspectors.
