HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE L. NARASIMHA REDDY WRIT PETITION No.1134 OF 2004 ORDER: Petitioners are employed as Junior Lecturers on various dates, in different Junior Colleges that were admitted to grant-in-aid. Their services, however, were absorbed or regularized against aided vacancies, much later. They have furnished the particulars thereof. The grievance of the petitioners is that the respondents have not taken into account the service rendered by them, against the unaided vacancies, in the context of fixation of pay sale and for extending the benefit of Career Advancement Scheme (for short ‘CAS’) etc. The petitioners placed reliance upon the judgment dated 08-09-1997 rendered by this Court in Writ Appeal No.432 of 1997. 2. Heard the learned counsel for the petitioners and the Learned Government Pleader for Higher Education. 3. It is not in dispute that the services of the petitioners were either regularized or absorbed against aided vacancies, much after they have been initially appointed in the respective institutions. The question as to whether the unaided service rendered by an employee, who is subsequently, appointed or absorbed against an aided vacancy for the purpose of fixation of pay scale or CAS benefits, is no longer res integra. In W.A. No.432 of 1997, this Court held that unaided services must be taken into account for the purpose of fixation of pay scale and for extending the benefit under CAS. That was followed by a learned single Judge of this Court in W.P. No.4936 of 1993. 4. Therefore, the Writ Petition is allowed. It is held that the petitioners shall be entitled to be extended to the benefit of the service rendered by them against the unaided vacancies for the limited purpose of fixation of pay scale and extending the benefit under the Career Advancement Scheme. The exercise in this regard shall be undertaken within a period of three months from the date of receipt of a copy of this order. Petitioners, however, shall not be entitled to be paid arrears, on account of re-fixation of pay scale etc., and they shall be entitled for the benefit only prospectively. There shall be no order as to costs. ____________________ L. NARASIMHA REDDY, J December 09, 2010. KTL