CWP No. 8101 of 2009 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH CWP No. 8101 of 2009 Date of Decision: May 26, 2009 Rajinder Singh and others ...... Petitioners Versus State of Haryana and others ...... Respondents Coram: Hon'ble Mr. Justice Ajay Tewari Present: Mr. Girish Agnihotri, Sr. Advocate with Ms.Binayjeet Sheoran, Advocate for the petitioners. **** 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? Ajay Tewari, J. The claim in the instant writ petition is for grant of the pay scale of the post of Block Level Extension Officers to the petitioners. The petitioners were earlier working as Inspectors in the Industry Department. They were claiming parity with the Block Level Extension Officers. They had filed CWP No. 17902 of 2003 which was disposed of with a direction to the respondents to consider their claim. Consequent to that a decision was taken by the Government to merge the cadre of Inspectors in the Industries Department with that of Block Level Extension Officers and in fact the said cadres were merged. However, the petitioners continued to be placed in the lower pay scale. The petitioners CWP No. 8101 of 2009 2 represented to the respondents with regard to this anomaly and the following reply was sent:- “Reference your application dated 7.8.2008 on the subject noted above. It is informed that the pay scale of Inspector (Industries) till to date is 5000-7850. As per Govt. advice, proposal will be sent to Govt. after the report of pay commission.” Learned counsel for the petitioners states that he would be satisfied if at this stage a direction is issued to the respondents to take a final decision in the matter in terms of the above quoted communication. I find this to be a fair request. In the circumstances without going into the merits of the case I direct the respondents to take a final decision in terms of the above quoted letter within a period of two months from the date of receipt of a certified copy of this order. (AJAY TEWARI) JUDGE May 26, 2009 sunita