The petitioner companytended that employees like Police Inspectors and some others who were borne on the same scale of pay as P.A. prior to implementation of the Fourth Central Pay Commission Report i.e. Rs.
2002 Supp 1 SCR 118 The Judgment of the Court was delivered by P. MOHAPATRA.
On receipt of the Fourth Central Pay Commission Report the Central Government revised the pay scale of P.A.s to Rs.200Q 3500 with effect from 1.1.1986.
The Petitioner alleged that the post of P.A. in Civil Secretarial of the State of Haryana is companyparable with the post of P.A. in Central Secretarial they discharge similar duties and responsibilities as those of their companynterparts in the Central Sercetariat.
350 as special pay, instead of Rs, 2000 3500.
In the Writ petition the petitioner prayed for a writ in the nature of mandamus directing the respondents to grant the Personal Assistants for short P.A.s the pay scale of Rs.
2000 3200 and that too only to those P.A.s who have companypleted J2 years of services and maximum up to 20 of the posts in cadre is wholly illegal and unjust.
2,000 3500 plus Rs.
The further case of the petitioner was that in respect of certain categories of employees of different departments of State of Haryana like Education, Police, Transport, Health and Engineering and Technical staff, the State Government revised the scale of pay exactly according to recommendation of the Fourth Central Pay Commission and granted them the scale of Rs, 2000 3500 but in case of the P.A.s the State Government fixed the lower revised scale of Pay denying them parity of pay scale with their companynterparts in the Central Government.
Such companyparison for the purpose of claim of parity of pay, the respondents companytended, was companyceived and was of numberavail to the petitioner in the case.
1640 2900 Rs.
The case of the Writ petitioner sans unnecessary details was that prior to l986 the P.A.s in the Civil Secretariat, Haryana were enjoying higher scale of pay than the P.A.s of the Central Secretariat.
150/ as special pay which have been given to the P.A.s working in the Central Secretariat for the reason that the State of Haryana had accepted the recommendations made by the Fourth Central Pay Commission with regard to revision of pay scales with effect from 1.1.1986 with all companysequential benefits like fixation of pay arrears and other benefits.
Though the Government of Haryana accepted the recommendations of the Fourth Central Pay Commission and implemented the same in respect of certain categories of employees but in respect of P.A.s in the Civil Secretariat the revised scale of pay was fixed at Rs.
Such action on the part of the State Government, the petitioner companytended, was arbitrary, discriminatory and irrational.
Refuting the allegations made in the writ petition the respondents in their companynter affidavit questioned the very basis of the claim laid by the petitioner which was based on the assumption that P.A.s in the State Civil Secretariat were entitled to the same scale of pay granted by the Central Government to P.A.s working in the Central Secretariat.
700 1250, were granted the pay scale of Rs.
150 special pay to P.A.s with 12 years of service and up to 20 of the posts in the cadre.
1640 2900 only.
The further case of the petitioner was that on receipt of several representations from the petitioner association and its members, the State Government referred the matter to the Pay Anomalies Commission headed by the Chief Secretary, which did number accept the claim of the petitioner but only recommended the Selection Grade of Rs.2000 3200 to the 20 of the posts of P.A.s with the companydition of 12 years of service.
2000 3200 whereas the P.A.s were placed in the scale of Rs.
It was asserted by the petitioner that the P.A.s working in the Civil Secretatriat were entitled to get the pay scale of Rs.2000 3500 with effect from 1.1.1986 and the decision taken by the State Government granting the Selection Grade of Rs.
J. This appeal filed by the State of Haryana, represented by the Chief Secretary and the Secretary to Government of Haryana, Department of Finance, is directed against the judgment of the Punjab Haryana High Court dated 13.8.1996 in CWP No.
4206/95 filed by the Haryana Civil Secretariat Personal Staff Association through its General Secretary Shri Ram Mehar Sharma.
