IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No.11518 of 2007 Date of Decision : April 29, 2010. Harminder Singh .....Petitioner versus State of Punjab and others .....Respondents CORAM : HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE SURYA KANT. Present : Mr.Rajesh K.Dadwal, Advocate, for the petitioner. Mr.B.S.Chahal, Deputy Advocate General, Punjab. -.- 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 is serving as a Punjabi Master in the Education Department, Government of Punjab. He seeks a mandamus to direct the respondents to fix his pay at Rs.5640/- as on 1.9.1997 after counting his previous service and further re-fix the same after granting him due increments on completion of 4/9 years of service, with all consequential benefits. During the course of hearing, learned counsel for the parties are ad-idem that the controversy involved in this case can be disposed of in terms of the order dated 2.3.2010 passed by this Court in CWP No.16323 of 2008 (Smt.Sudarshana Devi and another versus State of Punjab and C.W.P.No .11518 of 2007 2 others), vide which an Officers' Committee comprising (i) Sh.Krishan Kumar, IAS, Special Secretary and Director General School Education; (ii) Sh.Amol Rattan Singh, Additional Advocate General, Punjab; (iii) Sh. Chander Shekhar Talwar, IAS, Special Secretary, Finance and Director, Treasury & Accounts, Punjab, and (iv) Sh.Dharminder Pal, PCS, Additional Secretary to Govt. of Punjab, Department of Personnel, has been constituted to examine the claim of the teachers, like the petitioner, in a time bound manner. The writ petition is accordingly disposed of with a direction to the aforesaid Officers' Committee to consider the claim of the petitioner in accordance with the Rules/Policies as well as the facts pleaded in the writ petition and make necessary recommendations to the Competent Authority. In the event of favourable recommendations, the same shall be implemented by the Competent Authority without any delay unless it disagrees for the reasons to be assigned in writing, within a period of four months from the date of receiving a certified copy of this order. However, if the petitioner is dis-satisfied or is aggrieved at the decision of the Committee, he shall be at liberty to seek redressal of his grievances before an appropriate forum. Dasti. April 29, 2010 (SURYA KANT) Mohinder JUDGE