Court No.2 IN THE HIGH COURT OF UTTARAKHAND AT NAINITAL Writ Petition No. 7177 of 2001 Shyam Singh and others .................. Petitioner. Versus State of Uttaranchal through Secretary, Urban Development, Dehradun and others. ............... Respondents. .................... Sri J.C. Pandey, learned Counsel for the petitioners. Sri Paresh Tripathi, learned Brief Holder on behalf of respondent No. 1 Sri J.P. Joshi, learned counsel for the respondents. Dated: May 14, 2008. Hon’ble P.C. Verma, J. This petition has been field by the petitioner seeking mandamus directing the respondents to pay the petitioners their salary/wages in the prescribed scale as is bring given to other employees, who were also appointed on daily wages in Kumaon Jal Sansthan or in Garhwal Jal Sansthan but receiving their salary at the rate of minimum pay scale admissible to the regularly appointed employees. 2. The petitioner were appointed in U.P. Jal Nigam in March 1993 in the drinking water scheme as Chowkidar on daily wages and with effect form 20.07.1993 their services were transferred from U.P. Jal Nigam to the Kumaon Jal Sansthan alongwith the scheme on which they were working. Thereafter on 14.08.1997 the Executive Engineer, Kumaon Jal Sansthan, Ranikhet relieved the petitioners and asked them to joint in the U.P. Jal Nigam on the pretext that the General Manager, Kumaon Jal Sansthan has not given further sanction to continue them in Kumaon Jal Sansthan. The petitioners appeared before the authority of U.P. Jal Nigam at Bhikiyasen but they refused to accept the joining of the petitioners. Against the said refusal the petitioner filed Writ Petition at High Court Allahabad bearing No. 30867 of 1997 but failed to get the relief claimed therein. Against the said order dated 18.09.1997 passed in writ petition the petitioners filed Special Appeal bearing No. 884 of 1997 in which Division Bench of Allahabad High Court passed an interim order on 27.10.1997 that the appellants will be kept engaged by Kumaon Jal Sansthan, Ranikhet, District-Almora and will receive the wages from that establishment. 3. Since the petitioners are continuing in terms of the order dated 27.10.1997 Passed by the Division Bench of Allahabad High Court in Special Appeal No. 884 of 1997 in Kumaon Jal Sansthan, Ranikhet they shall be paid maximum pay of minimum pay scale as they have been working. 4. With the aforesaid observation, the writ petition is disposed of finally. (P.C. Verma, J.) 14.05.2008 P.Singh