CWP No. 14694 of 2011 -1- IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH CWP No. 14694 of 2011 Date of decision : 11.08.2011 Nirmala Devi and others ......Petitioners versus State of Punjab and others ...Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MS. JUSTICE RITU BAHRI Present: Mr. Sunny Singla, Advocate for the petitioners **** RITU BAHRI, J. (Oral) Petitioners are seeking direction to the respondents to remove the disparity in the pay-scale by giving them equal pay-scale as to the language teachers. Identical situated petitioners had approached this Court by filing CWP No.16380 of 1989 decided on 7.05.2009 wherein the petitioners were held entitled to the same pay scale as granted to the other language teachers i.e. Hindi, Punjabi and Urdu Teachers. The petitioners are working as PTI, Vocational Teacher etc. in a joint cadre of classical and vernacular teachers. In pursuance to the judgments passed by this Court, State of Punjab has issued instructions on 12.5.2011 whereby pay scale of ` 1640-2925 w.e.f. 1.1.1986, `5480-8975 w.e.f. 1.1.1996 and `10300-34800+3600 (Grade pay) w.e.f. 1.1.2006 have been granted to the Classical and Vernacular cadre Teachers. It has been decided that the arrears shall be made to serving petitioners and petitioners who have retired in equal five annual and two annual installments respectively. CWP No. 14694 of 2011 -2- Notice of motion On asking of the Court, Mr. Praveen Chander Goyal, Addl.A.G Punjab, accepts notice on behalf of the State. Counsel for the petitioner is directed to supply copy of the petition to the State counsel today itself during the course of the day This writ petition is disposed of in terms of the instructions of the Punjab Government dated 12.5.2011 by giving direction to the respondents to consider the case of all the petitioners as per judgment (Annexure P-6) and pass an appropriate speaking order within a period of two months from the date of receipt of certified copy of this order. August 11, 2011 (RITU BAHRI) G.Arora JUDGE