IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.12512 of 2004 RAMA KANT YADAV, son of late Narayan Yadav, resident of village and P.O. Lauwa Lagan, P.S. Chausa, District Madhepura, at present residing in Qrs. No.4, Road No.5, Near Shiv Mandir, Bihar Veterinary College, Patna 800014 … Petitioner Versus 1. THE STATE OF BIHAR 2. The Commissioner cum Secretary, Finance Department, Govt. of Bihar, Patna 3. Agricultural Production Commissioner, Agriculture Department, Govt. of Bihar, new Secretariat, Patna 4. The Vice Chancellor, Rajendra Agricultural University, Pusa, Samastipur 5. The Director (Administration), Rajendra Agricultural University, Pusa, Samastipur 6. The Registrar, Rajendra Agricultural university, Pusa, Samastipur 7. The Principal, Bihar Veterinary College, Patna 8. The Additional Secretary, Govt. Of Bihar, Agriculture Department, Patna … Respondents ----------- 3. 30.7.2010 Heard counsel for the petitioner and the counsel for the University. The prayer of the petitioner in this writ application reads as follows: “(i) For quashing the Resolution No. 4578, dated 14.10.2003 issued under the signature of the Addl. Secretary, Agriculture Department, Govt. of Bihar, in so far as the petitioner is concerned, by which the revised pay scale as mentioned in Schedule ‘Ga’ of the Riding Master a Class III post has been fixed as Rs. 2610-3540 which is the scale of pay meant for Class IV 2 employees. (ii) For a direction to the respondent authorities to allow the pay scale of Rs. 3050-4590 for the post of Riding Master which is the minimum equivalent to pre-revised scale of pay of Rs. 975-1540 to which scale the petitioner was appointed being a Class III post. (iii) For a further direction to fix the pay of the petitioner in the proposed revised pay scale and after refixation to pay the arrears thereof. Or In the alternative he may be promoted to the pre-revised scale of Rs.1200-1800, revised scale of which is Rs. 3050-4590. Mr. Sitesh Chandra Mitra, learned counsel appearing on behalf of the petitioner, would submit that the petitioner’s pay scale has been fixed by the State Govt. due to wrong information given by the University. He would submit that had the University informed the correct pay scale of the post of Riding Master on which the petitioner was promoted from a Class IV Post by showing it to be Rs. 975-1540 the revision thereof could have been made in the pay scale of Rs. 3050-4590. For this purpose 3 he would refer to the impugned order itself to show that the post of Laboratory Assistant and the post of Physical Education Instructor having the earlier pay scale of Rs. 975-1540 in the pay revision were given the pay scale of Rs. 3050-4590 and therefore on the same analogy the petitioner could have been given the pay scale of Rs. 3050- 4590 had his pay scale been correctly informed by the university. This argument of Mr. Mitra cannot be accepted for the reason that the State Government while revising the pay scale has also fixed the pay scale of Rs. 2610-3540 in respect of skilled worker who were earlier placed in the pay scale of Rs. 975-1540. As is well known the revision of pay is a job of experts and the Government while revising the pay scale is always entitled to take into consideration the various factors for fixing the pay scale. Therefore, if the Government has for its own reasons not given the petitioner, holding the post of Riding Master, the pay scale of Rs. 3050-4590 alike in the case of skilled worker there can be hardly a ground for judicial review by this 4 Court only because some of the other posts, such as Laboratory Assistant, Physical Education Instructor having earlier pay scale of Rs. 975-1540 were in revision given the pay scale of Rs. 3050-4590. Mr. Mitra would then submit that if the pay scale of the petitioner remains on a revision Rs.2610-3540 it would amount to cancelling his earlier promotion from Class IV to Class III post, inasmuch as the pay scale of Rs. 2610-3540 is the pay scale of Class IV employee. This again would be an argument of desperation, inasmuch as the classification of Class III and Class IV post for the purpose of fixation of pay can have no rationale except the qualification prescribed at entry point of a post, nature of promotional prospect and/or job assignment etc. If the skilled worker who definitely are not Class IV post holder can be given the pay scale of Rs. 2610-3540, there would be no difficulty in holding that even a Riding Master, which is a Class III post in the University, could be given a pay scale of Rs. 2610-3540. As indicated above, the challenge 5 to the revision of pay scale has to be based only on a limited ground mainly lack of reasonable classification and therefore, this Court in the present case would find that the Government has committed no error in fixing the pays scale of the post Riding Master at Rs. 2610-3540. That being so, this application is wholly misconceived and is, accordingly, dismissed. (Mihir Kumar Jha,J.) Surendra/