Feeling aggrieved, the respondents filed a writ petition CR No.247 W of 1982 for the following reliefs a a direction to the state government to revise the pay scales according to law, without discriminating them from Inspectors Co operative Societies , Extension Officers Panchayat , KGO JLRO etc.,
In the pending appeal, the respondents amended their writ petition on 8.12.1995 companytending that the Third Pay Commission had number taken into companysideration the duties and responsibilities of Inspectors AMW, while recommending that they should companytinue in the same pay scale, that their grievance in regard to the anomaly was companysidered by the Pay Review Committee companystituted to look into the anomalies and it had recommended that they should be assigned the higher Pay Scale No.10 Rs.1390 2970 and that the State Government had wrongly refused to accept the same and that they should, therefore, by granted unrevised Pay scale No.11 Rs.425 1050 which companyresponded to revised Pay scale No.10 Rs.1390 2970 .
Consequently, the West Bengal Sub ordinate Labour Service was also companystituted on 23.6.1995 companysisting of the following categories of posts i Inspector of Shops and Establishment ii Inspector of Minimum Wages iii Inspector of Trade Union iv Labour Inspector v Supervisor of Labour Welfare Centres under the Labour Directorate, West Bengal pleased under the West Bengal vi Inspector, Statistical Assistant, Investigator Scrutiny Assistant, Computer and Computing Investigation in the Statistical Section of the Labour Directorate West Bengal and vii Agricultural Minimum Wages Inspector.
The State Government resisted the said writ petition, companytending that the functions and duties of Inspectors AMW were different from the functions and duties of Inspectors Co operative Societies , Extension Officers Panchayat and KGO JLRO Revenue Officers .
Holders of the post of Inspector Co operative Societies , Extension Officer Panchayats and KGO JLRO Revenue Officers who were also in Pay Scale No.9 earlier, but with a higher initial pay of Rs.330, were granted the higher Pay Scale No.11 425 1050 .
The Fourth Pay Commission in April 1998 revised the existing pay scales and the new Pay Scale No.9 was Rs.4000 8850.
The said Committee, after companysidering the grievances of the respondents made the following recommendations As the same time, however, the Second Pay Commission companysidered upward revision of pay of quite a large number of post which were in the scale of Rs.300 600 as per ROPA Rules 1970 and recommendation the scale of Rs.380 910.
The Third Pay Commission made its recommendations on 31.12.1988 expressing the view that the existing scale of pay of the Inspectors AMW, was just and proper and there was numberneed to upgrade them to a higher pay scale.
Inspectors AMW and some other aggrieved categories of employees submitted their representations in regard to their grievances against the recommendations of the Third Pay Commission.
During the pendency of the appeal, Inspectors AMW, through their association, made a representation before the Third Pay Commission seeking several reliefs.
The State Government therefore, appointed a Pay Review Committee to companysider the various representations relating to anomalies.
The rules regarding the recruitment of Inspectors AMW were amended on 5.6.1995 and these posts were brought under the Labour Department.
Feeling aggrieved, the respondents filed an appeal FMAT No.2453 of 1987 .
Therefore, the Pay Commission recommended Pay Scale No.9 companyresponding to the old Pay Scale No.9 that is Rs.380 910 revised as Rs.1260 2610 .
