Civil Writ Petition No. 12545 of 2011 -1- IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No. 12545 of 2011 Date of decision:-19.7.2011 Dharampal Singh and others ...Petitioners Versus State of Punjab and another ...Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MS. JUSTICE RITU BAHRI Present:- Mrs. K.K. Kahlon, 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 Civil Writ Petition No.16380 of 1989 and Civil Writ Petition No.14264 of 1991 and other connected petitions decided on 09.11.2009 wherein the petitioners were held entitle to the same pay-scale as granted to the other language teachers i.e. Hindi, Punjabi and Urdu Teachers. The petitioners are working as Art & Craft/Drawing teahcers, P.T.I., Sewing/Silai, Agriculture, Domestic/Home science, C & V teachers 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 Rs.1640-2925 w.e.f. 1.1.86, Rs.5480-8975 w.e.f. 1.1.96 and Rs.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 Civil Writ Petition No. 12545 of 2011 -2- annual installments respectively. Notice of motion. On asking of Court Mr. Gazi Mohd. Umair, DAG Punjab accepts notice on behalf of respondents. Counsel for the petitioners is directed to supply copy of petition to 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 judgments (Annexures P-14 and P- 15) and pass an appropriate speaking order within a period of three months from the date of receipt of certified copy of this order. July 19, 2011 ( RITU BAHRI ) Vijay Asija JUDGE