IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No.9798 of 2010 Date of Decision : July 19, 2010. Om Parkash Chopra .....Petitioner versus The Secretary, PSEB and others .....Respondents CORAM : HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE SURYA KANT. Present : Mr.Manish Prabhakar, Advocate, for the petitioner. -.- 1. Whether Reporters of Local papers may be allowed to see the judgment? 2. To be referred to the Reporters or not? 3. Whether the judgment should be reported in the Digest? --- Surya Kant, J. (Oral) The petitioner seeks a mandamus to direct the respondents to grant him two compensatory increments on his absorption in the Board from the Municipal Corporation, Amritsar. The compensatory increments are claimed on the basis of the Board's Circular No.7762-Cadre-I dated 24.4.1996. The Board-authorities have declined the compensatory increments in terms of their later circular dated 8/22.2.2010 (Annexure P6), the relevant extract of which reads as follows:- “.....In this regard, it is mentioned that Board has already taken the decision in regard of absorption of the employees working in the Electrical Wing of Municipal Corporation, C.W.P.No .9798 of 2010 2 Amritsar w.e.f. 1.4.1995. According to this, the employees those were working under the Government of Punjab before 31.3.1995 and they have been given the scales of Punjab State Electricity Board w.e.f. 1.4.1995, hence there is no provision to give them the scales of the Board before 31.3.1995 and the position is not clarified that how the compensatory increments can be provided to them as per Finance Circular No.39/89 of the Boards scale before 1.4.1995. Despite this, the Government of Punjab had also implemented a new master scale w.e.f. 1.11.1993 and the same had been adopted by the Board, according to that there was no provision to the Board employees to give the compensatory increments, hence these kind of employees who were working under Government of Punjab before 1.4.1995, before the absorption in the Board, how the master scale of the Board can be given to them, whereas, they were not employees of the Board before 1.4.1995....” The petitioner has averred that notwithstanding the above stated circular, the entire technical technical staff and other employees who were also absorbed like him w.e.f. 1.4.1995, have been granted the compensatory increments. In the absence of any instance or material on record, I am of the considered view that no mandamus as prayed for by the petitioner, can be issued unless the petitioner raises such a claim firstly before the authorities. The writ petition is accordingly disposed of with liberty to the petitioner to represent before the competent authority alongwith the instances of those employees who though were absorbed w.e.f. 1.4.1995 C.W.P.No .9798 of 2010 3 but have been granted compensatory increments. If such a representation is made by the petitioner, the respondent-authorities (competent authority) shall consider and dispose of the same in accordance with law/Government Policy, within a period of four months from the date of receiving a certified copy of this order. Dasti. July 19, 2010 (SURYA KANT) Mohinder JUDGE