1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY NAGPUR BENCH : NAGPUR. Writ Petition No.4129 of 2008 [S.V. Katekar Vs. State of Mah. & another] Office Notes, Office Memoranda of Coram, appearances, Court's orders Court's or Judge's orders or directions and Registrar's orders. Mr. C.A. Joshi, Adv., for the petitioner. Mrs. T.D. Khade, AGP for Respondent Nos. 1 and 2. ----- CORAM : B.H. MARLAPALLE AND A.H. JOSHI, JJ. DATE : 14th November,2008. Heard. Petitioner came to be appointed as a Librarian on 14th March, 1995, and at that time, he was holding the qualification of Certificate Course in Library Science and, therefore, the appointment was made in the pay-scale of Rs. 1200-2040/-. The petitioner passed his B.Sc., examination on 3rd March, 2000, and in November, 2000, he claims to have passed the Examination of Bachelor of Library & Information Science, conducted by Yashwantrao Chavhan Maharashtra Open University. The petitioner claims that as 2 per the Govt. Resolution dated 6th August, 1983, the pay-scales for the post of Librarian were revised, and the Govt. issued a further Govt. Resolution on 30th April, 19998 prescribing the pay-scale of Rs.1600-2660/- with a degree qualification in Library Science. The pay-scale for the said post prior to 30th April, 1998 was Rs.1400-2300/-, and as per the petitioner, on implementation of the Fifth Pay Commission recommendations, he ought to have been placed in the pay-scale of Rs.4500-7000/- as against his present pay-scale of Rs.4,000-6,000-00. The petitioner has submitted a representation to this effect to the Education Officer on 21st April, 2008. We direct the respondent no.2 to decide the said representation after hearing the petitioner, as expeditiously as possible, but in any case before 31st January, 2009. Petition is disposed off in terms of above directions. Writ to go to the Education Officer forthwith. Judge Judge |Hedau|