IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No.8055 of 1988 (O&M) Date of decision: 07.12.2011 Ram Swaroop and others ...Petitioners versus The State of Haryana, through the Commissioner & Secretary to Government, Haryana, Transport Department, Chandigarh, and others. ....Respondents II. Civil Writ Petition No.11445 of 1988 (O&M) Raj Vir Singh and others ...Petitioners versus The State of Haryana, through the Commissioner & Secretary to Government, Haryana, Transport Department, Chandigarh, and others. ....Respondents III. Civil Writ Petition No.536 of 1989 (O&M) Satyvir Singh and others ...Petitioners versus The State of Haryana, through the Commissioner & Secretary to Government, Haryana, Transport Department, Chandigarh, and others. ....Respondents IV. Civil Writ Petition No.6027 of 1989 (O&M) Virender Kumar ...Petitioner versus The State of Haryana, through the Commissioner & Secretary to Government, Haryana, Transport Department, Chandigarh, and others. ....Respondents Civil Writ Petition No.8055 of 1988 (O&M) - 2 - CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE K. KANNAN ---- Present: Mr. Harsh Nain, Advocate, for the petitioners 10 to 13, 16, 17, 25 and 26 in CWP No.8055 of 1988 and for petitioners 9, 10, 12, 13, 17, 21, 26, 42, 46, 49 to 52 & 54 in CWP No.11445 of 1988. Mr. D.S.Bishnoi, Advocate for the petitioners in CWP Nos.536 and 6027 of 1989. Ms. Kirti Singh, DAG, Haryana. ---- 1. Whether reporters of local papers may be allowed to see the judgment ? No. 2. To be referred to the reporters or not ? No. 3. Whether the judgment should be reported in the digest ? No. ---- K.Kannan, J. (Oral) 1. The point covered in these batch of writ petitions, it is reported that, has been dealt with by a Bench of this Court in Ramesh Chand and others Versus State of Haryana and another in CWP No.1188 of 1992, decided on 08.03.2010. 2. The issue in these cases is the entitlement of higher scales on the basis that the persons, who had ITI certification and who were holding technical posts, were entitled to higher scale, while the contention by the Transport Department was that there were no specific rules that admitted of higher scales for technical posts. In the aforesaid judgment in Ramesh Chand, this Court was considering a similar contention taken on behalf of the State and it held that the conditions of service were notified by various circulars issued by the Transport Commissioner from time to time and the workshop staff of the Haryana Roadways comprised three levels of employees i.e. unskilled, semi-skilled and skilled. The Court has dealt with some of the instructions issued from time to time by the Civil Writ Petition No.8055 of 1988 (O&M) - 3 - General Manager of the Haryana Roadways, who had prescribed the qualification of metric and ITI as the minimum qualification for such technical posts. This Court has allowed the writ petition and provided to the petitioners that they are entitled to higher scales treating the post as technical post. The petitioners will have a similar consideration and all the writ petitions are allowed in terms of the view taken by this Court already in Ramesh Chand (supra). The petitioners will be entitled to a scale of Rs.480-760 with effect from 01.02.1981 and the arrears shall be calculated within a period of 12 weeks from the date of receipt of copy of this order and paid to them. 3. All the writ petitions are disposed of on the above terms. (K. KANNAN) JUDGE 07.12.2011 sanjeev