IN THE HIGH COURT FOR THE STATES OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Dated of decision : 07.02.2011 CWP No.22892 of 2010 Jagdish Rai and others Vs. State of Punjab and others CWP No.16085 of 2010 Avinash Bhandari and others Vs. State of Punjab and another CWP No.16981 of 2010 Dev Raj Jindal and others Vs. State of Punjab and another CWP No.17320 of 2010 Surinder Kumar and others Vs. State of Punjab and others. CWP No.17770 of 2010 Jasbir Kaur Sandhu(Retd.) and others Vs. State of Punjab and others CWP No.18135 of 2010 Pushpa Gupta and others Vs. State of Punjab and another CWP No.18172 of 2010 Tilak Raj and others Vs. The State of Punjab and others CWP No.19397 of 2010 Niranjan Singh and others Vs. State of Punjab and another CWP No.19517 of 2009 Santokh Singh and others Vs. The State of Punjab and others. CWP No.19659 of 2010 Lavinder Singh and others Vs. The State of Punjab and others. CWP No.20195 of 2010 Kanwal Nain Tandon and others Vs. The State of Punjab and others. CWP No.22225 of 2010 Veena Kumari and others Vs. The State of Punjab and others. CWP No.23360 of 2010 Madho Singh and others Vs. The State of Punjab and others. CWP No.23329 of 2010 Sudarshan Kumar and others Vs. The State of Punjab and another CWP No.18787 of 2010 Kishan Dass Mahey and others Vs. The State of Punjab and others. CWP No.344 of 2011 Gurdial Singh and others Vs. The State of Punjab and others CWP No.19757 of 2010 Harbans Lal and others Vs. The State of Punjab and others CWP No.17950 of 2010 Gurcharan Singh and others Vs. The State of Punjab and others. CORAM : HON’BLE MR.JUSTICE PERMOD KOHLI. Present: Mr.Nirmal Singh, Advocate Mr.S.K.Rattan, Advocate Ms.Alka Chatrath, Advocate Ms.Anju Bansal, Advocate Mr.R.K.Arora, Advocate Mr.S.K.Rattan, Advocate * * * Permod Kohli, J. Petitioners in these cases joined the Punjab Education Department as Masters/Teachers prior to 1975. Pay scales of the Classical and vernacular Teachers were revised on the recommendation of Kothari Commission vide CWP No.22892 of 2010 and other connected matters letter dated 19.6.1971. However, benefit of pay revision was not allowed in the case of Masters/Teachers like petitioners even after completion of five years of service, though the benefits were extended to them vide letter dated 16.7.1975. This petition has been filed seeking the benefit of pay revision w.e.f. 1.11.1971 when they completed five years of service. It is not in dispute that the controversy has been settled by this Court in CWP No.2208 of 1989 titled as Lekh Raj Khera and others Vs. State of Punjab, passed by this Court on 24.3.2009 wherein the following observations have been made:- “In view of the above legal and factual position, this petition succeeds partially. Respondents are directed to extend the benefits of the pay revision in case of petitioners w.e.f. 1.11.1971 instead of 16.7.1975. They are further directed to fix the pay scale of the such of the petitioners whose unrevised pay falls between two stages in the new time scale in the revised scale in the next stage. The process of fixation of pay be completed within a period of four months from the date certified copy of this order is served upon the competent authority. The consequential benefit be released in favour of the petitioners within a period of two months thereafter.” This petition is accordingly disposed of in terms of above judgment. Petitioners are entitled to similar relief. A photo copy of this order be placed on each connected file. ( Permod Kohli ) Judge 07.02.2011 sd [ 2]