IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No.622 of 2010 Date of Decision : 15.01.2010 Dharam Pal and another .....Petitioners versus State of Punjab and others .....Respondents CORAM : HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE SURYA KANT. Present : Mr.Vivek Salathia, Advocate, for the petitioners. -.- 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? --- ORDER Surya Kant, J. (Oral) The petitioners are working as Liftmen (Lift Operators) at Shri Guru Tej Bahadur Government Hospital, Amritsar. They were placed in the pre-revised pay scale of Rs.810-1440. They claim that the Lift Operators working with the Irrigation Board, Government of Punjab, though performing duties identical to the petitioners, have been granted the higher pay scale of Rs.950-1800. The claim of the petitioners is that notwithstanding the nature of duties, their responsibilities and working hours being identical, the petitioners are being denied the higher pay scale in violation of the principle of `equal pay for equal work'. In this regard, the petitioners are C.W.P.No .622 of 2010 (O&M) 2 said to have served the respondents through a legal notice dated 17.3.2009 (Annexure P-2) but no action has been taken so far. Having heard counsel for the petitioners, however, without expressing any views on the merits of the petitioners' claim, especially when the complete facts in relation to the qualification, eligibility conditions, nature of duties, responsibility, working hours and other service conditions of two sets of lift operators are not on record, I deem it appropriate to dispose of the writ petition with a direction to the respondents to consider the claim of the petitioners, as mentioned in the legal notice dated 17.3.2009 (Annexure P-2) and dispose of the same by passing a speaking order preferably within a period of 6 months from the date of receiving a certified copy of this order. Dasti. 15-01-2010 (SURYA KANT) Mohinder JUDGE