IN THE HIGH COURT OF UTTARAKHAND AT NAINITAL Writ Petition No. 1199 (SS) of 2005 Sadhu Ram and another. ………Petitioners. Versus State of Uttaranchal and others. ……...Respondents. Present:- Sri Manoj Tiwari, Sr. Advocate assisted by Mr. Alok Mehra, Advocate for the petitioners. Mr. N.P. Shah, Standing Counsel for the State of Uttarakhand. Mrs. Beena Pandey, Standing Counsel for State of U.P. Hon’ble Sudhanshu Dhulia, J. (Oral) Petitioners, were earlier appointed on Class III post as Project Worker in the erstwhile State of U.P. Once this project got completed, the services of the petitioners were liable to be come to an end. All the same, they filed writ petitions before Allahabad High Court, which were allowed and consequently, the petitioners were absorbed in the regular establishment in the erstwhile State of U.P., in the office of Labour Commissioner. Consequent to, reorganization of the State of U.P., petitioners were allocated to State of Uttarakhand and are now employees of State of Uttarakhand in the Labour Department. By means of the present writ petition, petitioners claimed parity against the similarly situated employees working in the erstwhile State of Uttar Pradesh as well as against the employees of State of Uttarakhand, who have given the higher pay scales than the petitioners. In many cases, they were absorbed initially on higher pay scale by Government order dated 31.08.2005 and 02.03.2006, 2 which are Annexure no. 21A and 21B to the writ petition, Petitioners contend that such higher pay scale have been given to similarly situated employees as well in the State of Uttrakhand. Learned counsel for the petitioners relied upon the certain documents filed by the State of Uttarakhand, which are in favour of the petitioners for grant of higher pay scale. The counsel appearing for the State of Uttarakhand, on the other hand, states that the parity cannot be given to the petitioners, as the parity is claimed with the employees, who are presently working in the State of U.P. Be that as it may, respondent no. 1 Principal Secretary, Labour Department Government of Uttranchal (Uttarakhand), Dehradun is hereby directed to consider the grievance of the petitioners regarding grant of higher pay scale, particularly, in view of Government Order dated 31.08.2005 and 02.03.2006, which are Annexure no. 21A and 21B to the writ petition, and pass speaking order thereon, as expeditiously as possible, but definitely within a period of three months from the date a certified copy of this order along with copy of writ petition is produced before him. With the aforesaid direction, the writ petition is disposed of. No order as to costs. (Sudhanshu Dhulia, J.) 20.07.2011 SKS