IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM PRESENT : THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE S.SIRI JAGAN THURSDAY, THE 18TH FEBRUARY 2010 / 29TH MAGHA 1931 WP(C).No. 25762 of 2008(P) -------------------------- PETITIONER(S): --------------- V.HARSHAN, NON VOCATIONAL TEACHRE IN ENGLISH GOVERNMENT VOCATIONAL HIGHER SECONDARY SCHOOL, ACHANCOIL, KOLLAM. BY ADV. SRI.ELVIN PETER P.J. RESPONDENT(S): --------------- 1. STATE OF KERALA, REPRESENTED BY ITS SECRETARY, GENERAL EDUCATION DEPARTMENT GOVERNMENT SECRETARIAT, THIRUVANANTHAPURAM 2. THE DIRECTOR OF VOCATIONAL HIGHER SECONDARY EDUCATION,THIRUVANANTHAPURAM 3. THE PRINCIPAL GOVERNMENT VOCATIONAL HIGHER SECONDARY SCHOOL, ACHANCOIL, KOLLAM. GOVERNMENT PLEADER SRI.SANDESH RAJA THIS WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) HAVING BEEN FINALLY HEARD ON 18/02/2010, ALONG WITH WPC NO. 30742/2008 AND CONNECTED CASES, THE COURT ON THE SAME DAY DELIVERED THE FOLLOWING: S.SIRI JAGAN, J. ================== W.P.(C).Nos.25762, 30742, 33039, 33651 & 34138 of 2008 and W.P.(C).Nos.3371, 6055, 19471 & 19657 of 2009 ================== Dated this the 18th day of February, 2010 J U D G M E N T The question involved in these writ petitions is as to whether when a person from the ministerial staff of the Vocational Higher Secondary School is provisionally appointed as Non Vocational Teacher under Rule 9(a)(i) of the KS&SSR, the person so appointed is entitled to salary in the scale of pay applicable to the post of Non Vocational Teacher. That exact question was considered by me in W.P.(C). No.9780/2008 and decided in favour of the teachers so provisionally appointed. Accordingly, these writ petitions are disposed of in terms of the judgment in W.P.(C). No.9780/2008. Sd/- sdk+ S.SIRI JAGAN, JUDGE The last sentence of the judgment dated 18/02/2010 in W.P.(C). No. 19471/2009 and connected cases is substituted by the following sentence, as per order in R.P.No.259/2010 in W.P.(C).No. 19471/2009 dated 16.03.2010. “Accordingly, these writ petitions are disposed of in terms of the judgment in W.P.(C).No. 9780/2008 with a further direction that if they are entitled to any benefit reckoning their provisional appointment, for fixation of pay on regular appointment, consequential benefits shall be given to the petitioners.” Sd/- Registrar (Judicial) 2 ///True copy/// P.A. to Judge