IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No.1674 of 2010 (O&M) Date of Decision : February 02, 2010. Surinder Sharma .....Petitioner versus State of Punjab and others .....Respondents CORAM : HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE SURYA KANT. Present : Mr.R.K.Arora, Advocate, for the petitioner. -.- 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 petitioner seeks a direction for the grant of proficiency step up on completion of 16/24 years regular service, in terms of the Government Instructions dated 25.9.1998 (Annexure P-2). He also seeks a direction to the respondents to release the payment of the missing credits in his GPF account. The precise claim of the petitioner appears to be that though he fulfills the eligibility criteria laid down in the Government Instructions dated 1.12.1988 (Annexure P-1) and 25.9.1998 (Annexure P-2) for the grant of proficiency step-up on completion of 16/24 years of service yet he has been denied the afore-stated benefit in an arbitrary and discriminatory C.W.P.No .1674 of 2010 (O&M) 2 manner. The second grievance of the petitioner is that in his GPF Account No.Siksha-Punjab-10606 (New) Punjab Education-11033 (old), there are some missing credits for the years 7/83 to 3/84, 4/84 to 3/85, 5/86 and 4/01 to 3/02, which the respondents are obligated to deposit and get regularised but nothing has been done as a result of which the petitioner has been caused immense financial loss. The petitioner is said to have represented the respondents in this regard followed by a legal notice dated 30.11.2009 (Annexure P-5) but there is no response thereto. Having heard learned counsel for the petitioner and considering the nature of relief sought by him, I deem it appropriate to dispose of this writ petition with a direction to respondent No.2 to take cognizance of the legal notice dated 30.11.2009 (Annexure P-9) served on behalf of the petitioner and dispose of the petitioner's claim by passing a speaking order, preferably within a period of four months from the date of receiving a certified copy of this order. Disposed of. Dasti. 02-02-2010 (SURYA KANT) Mohinder JUDGE