IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No.1600 of 1987 Date of Decision : March 30, 2010. Hazara Singh and another .....Petitioners versus State of Punjab and others .....Respondents CORAM : HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE SURYA KANT. Present : Mr.M.S.Rakhar, Senior Advocate with Mr.P.S.Brar, Advocate, for the petitioners. Ms.Charu Tuli, Senior DAG, Punjab. -.- 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? --- Surya Kant, J. (Oral) The petitioners, who were working as JBT Teachers, seek a mandamus to direct the respondents to grant them the benefit of higher qualifications and release three advance increments in their favour from the dates of acquiring the Giani qualification. Somewhat similar controversy with regard to the grant of additional/three increments to the Teachers on the basis of higher qualifications like Giani, Prabhkar, came up for consideration before this Court in CWP No.16323 of 2008 (Smt.Sudarshana Devi and another versus State of Punjab and others), and pursuant to the order dated C.W.P.No .1600 of 1987 2 2.3.2010 passed therein alongwith other connected matters, an Officers' Committee comprising (i) Sh.Krishan Kumar, IAS, Special Secretary and Director General School Education; (ii) Sh.Amil Rattan Singh, Additional Advocate General, Punjab; (iii) Sh. Chander Shekhar Talwar, IAS, Special Secretary, Finance and Director, Treasury & Accounts, Punjab, and (iv) Sh.Dharminder Pal, PCS, Additional Secretary to Govt. of Punjab, Department of Personnel, has been constituted to examine the claim of the teachers, like the petitioners and made its recommendations in a time bound manner. The present writ petition is also accordingly disposed of by relegating the matter to the said Officers' Committee who shall consider and dispose of the claim of the petitioner within a period of four months from the date of receiving a certified copy of this order. Needless to say that if the Committee recommends in favour of the petitioners, the Competent Authority shall implement such recommendations, unless it disagrees for the reasons to be assigned. Dasti. March 30, 2010 (SURYA KANT) Mohinder JUDGE