IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No. 12188 of 2011 Date of decision:-26.07.2011 Avtar Singh and others ...Petitioners Versus State of Punjab and others ...Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MS. JUSTICE RITU BAHRI Present:- Mr. Virinder Kumar Shukla, Advocate for the petitioners. Ms. Anu Pal, AAG Punjab. RITU BAHRI J.(Oral) The petitioners are claiming parity of pay-scale with the teachers in the same cadre. Petitioners are from the cadre of classical and vernacular cadre comprising of language and other teachers including Hindi, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Urdu, PTI, Art & Craft, Drawing, Sewing teachers, Manual Training Instructors (MTI) and Agriculture Instructors. The issue has been decided by a number of judgments by this Court, hence, eventually the Government of Punjab has issued general instructions on 12.5.2011 to grant the same pay-scale. As per these instructions payment of arrears shall be made in five annual and two annual installments respectively for serving and retired employees. Grant of scale is subject to outcome of LPA, if any, filed by the State. In view of the instructions issued by the Government of Punjab, this writ petition is disposed of giving direction to the respondents to fix the salary of the petitioners and release their first installment of arrears within a period of two months from the date of receipt of certified copy of this order, in view of instructions dated 12.5.2011. July 26, 2011 ( RITU BAHRI ) Vijay Asija JUDGE