1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY NAGPUR BENCH : NAGPUR Writ Petition No.2633 of 2011 [Manojkumar Ramshankar Banerjee Vs. State of Mah. & others] Office Notes, Office Memoranda of Coram, appearances, Court's orders Court's or Judge's orders or directions and Registrar's orders. Mr. A.P. Raghute, Adv., for the petitioner. Mrs. A. Taiwade, AGP for respondent nos. 1 to 3. ----- CORAM : B.P. DHARMADHIKARI AND A.P. BHANGALE, JJ. DATE : 14th October, 2011. 1. Heard. 2. Only prayer pressed by learned Adv. Mr. Raghute is about proper fixation of the petitioner. He points out that in the Statement of Fixation of Pay dated 21st February, 2011, petitioner was properly placed as a Lecturer at the stage of Rs.16200-00 and ignoring the settled position of law in this respect, the Joint Director  respondent no.2 has brought down the petitioner to Rs.15,300-00. He further states that controversy is covered by Judgment dated 8th April, 2011 passed in Writ Petition No. 3324 of 2010. He also invites attention to interim orders passed by this High Court at Bombay in Writ Petition No. 166 of 2007. 2 3. Learned AGP states that though controversy is covered, its implementation has to be on uniform basis and accordingly State Govt. has communicated the judgment to University Grants Commission [UGC] and its further approval/response in this respect is awaited. 4. Shri Raghute argues that judgment of this Court is to be implemented and nothing depends upon the approval/recommendation of UGC in this respect. 5. During hearing, Mr. Raghute had handed over a copy of the communication dated 2nd August, 2011 sent by Joint Director, Kolhapur Region, to respondent no.2 at Nagpur, and that of the communication dated 9th July, 2011 sent by that authority at Kolhapur to Teachers Association of Shivaji University at Kolhapur. He has also handed over a copy of the communication dated 2nd August, 2011 by Govt. of Maharashtra through its Regional Joint Director, Higher Education, Kolhapur Region, Kolhapur , to University Grants Commission on the proposal for extending the benefit of said judgment to Lecturers. 6. Learned AGP states that she has no instructions about these communications. 3 7. In this view of the matter, we direct the respondents to take appropriate steps to extend a similar benefit to present petitioner within a period of six weeks from today. The respondents should also attempt to extend the benefit of correct pay-scale and correct salary, so arrived at, to petitioner at least from 1st February, 2012. The grant of arrears can then be considered on uniform basis for all. 8. With these directions, we partly allow the petition, leaving all other grounds and reliefs open for its redressal before appropriate Forum. No costs. Judge Judge |Hedau|