IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Civil Writ Jurisdiction Case No.16981 of 2011 Nandu Singh son of Late Ram Kathin Singh Resident of village- Bajitpur, Police Station-Ghoshi, Dist. Jehanabad. ---Petitioner Versus 1. The State Of Bihar through the Agriculture Production Commissioner, Department of Agriculture, New Secretariat, Government of Bihar, Patna. 2. The Agriculture Production Commissioner, Department of Agriculture, New Secretariat, Bihar, Patna. 3. The Principal Secretary, Personnel and Administrative Reforms Department, New Secretariat, Bihar, Patna. 4. The Principal Secretary, Department of Finance, Government of Bihar, Old Secretariat, Bihar, Patna. 5. The Administrator, Bihar State Agriculture Marketing Board (Abolished) Pant Bhawan, Baily Road, Patna. --Respondents. ----- 02 26.09.2011 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned counsel for the State. Petitioner has filed the present application seeking a direction upon the respondent Bihar State Agriculture Marketing Board (dissolved) Pant Bhawan, Patna to provide him salary to the post of Marketing Secretary, Grade „A‟ on the principles of “Equal Pay for Equal Work”. Petitioner was initially appointed as Care Taker under the orders of the Managing Director of the erstwhile Bihar State Agriculture Marketing Board. The Establishment Committee of the Board recommended for converting the post of Care Taker to the post of Market Secretary, Grade-„B‟. Petitioner accordingly held the said post w.e.f. 17.7.2002. The Board was subsequently dissolved by an act of the legislature called Bihar Agriculture Produce Market Repeal Act, 2006. In terms of the provisions of the said Act, the petitioner was absorbed as the Head Clerk in the Department of Agriculture w.e.f. 23.6.2011. Now 2 a grievance is being raised that he was required to be paid in the pay scale admissible to the post of Market Secretary, Grade-„A‟ on the principles of “Equal Pay for Equal Work”. Relevant pleadings in this regard has been made in para 12 which are as under:- “12. That it is submitted here that the petitioner is entitled to pay scale of Market Secretary Grade- A from the date of his joining to the post of Market Secretary Grade-B on the principle of Equal pay for Equal Work as the petitioner has performed identical service and nature of duty as his counter parts being the Market Secretary Grade-A appointed by the Board, yet there is disparity in the pay scales and the petitioner has been paid at a lower pay scale without any ostensible or justifiable reason, but it is painful to mention here that in spite of several request the case of the petitioner has not been considered as yet by the competent authority.” Learned counsel for the petitioner in this regard has placed reliance on a judgment since reported in AIR 1994 SC 2214 ( Babu Lal Convenor & Anr. Vs. New Delhi Municipal Committee and Anr.). In view of indolency on the part of the petitioner in raising the issue as also grossly inadequate material placed on record to claim the same, this Court is not inclined to invoke its extraordinary & discretionary writ jurisdiction. The application lacks merit. It is, accordingly, dismissed. Sym ( Kishore K. Mandal, J.)