CWP No.18554 of 2009 -1- CWP No. 56 of 2010 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Date of decision:29.03.2010 (1) Civil Writ Petition No.18554 of 2009 Sukhdev Singh and another. ...... Petitioners Versus The State of Punjab and Another .... Respondents (2) Civil Writ Petition No. 56 of 2010 Dr. Sardool Singh and others. ...Petitioners Versus The State of Punjab and another. ...Respondents. CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE K. KANNAN Present: Mr. J.S. Virk, Advocate for the petitioner. Mr. Anil Kumar Sharma, Addl. Advocate General, Punjab for respondent No.1 Mr. J.P.S. Sandhu, Advocate for respondents No. 2. ---- 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. 1. In both the writ petitions, the claim by the petitioners is a parity of wages for persons working in the Punjab State University Text Book Board with the scales applicable to the civil servants of Government of Punjab. The written statement itself refers to the CWP No.18554 of 2009 -2- CWP No. 56 of 2010 meeting of governing body of the Board, held on 18.9.2008, when in item No.3 the decision was as follows: - “Director of Punjab State University Text Book Board has stated in detail regarding the grant of revised pay scales to the Staff of the Board w.e.f. 1.1.1996, and further stated that Punjab Govt. has released as amount of Rs.53 lacs in this regard. The revised pay scales has been approved for the post of Director Editors. Assistant Editors according to the revised Pay Scales of the teaching Staff of the Universities of the Punjab State and the Ministerial Staff of the Board according to the Punjab Govt. It was unanimously decided that the revised pay scales be implemented w.e.f. 1.1.96.” Learned counsel for the petitioner also points out the similar order has been passed in Liaq Ram and others Vs. State of Punjab in CWP No. 5738 of 2003. The prayer in the writ petition is granted with direction to the respondent to release the payment of arrears calculated in terms of the decision of the Governing Body on 18.09.2008 within a period of eight weeks from the date of receipt of the copy of the order 2. The writ petition is disposed of in the above terms. (K. KANNAN) JUDGE March 29, 2010 naresh.k.