CWP No.5135 of 1989 [1] IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH. C. W. P. No.5135 of 1989 Date of Decision: 23 - 12 - 2008 Jaswinder Pal Singh Kohli ....Petitioner v. The Punjab State Hosiery & Knitwear ....Respondents Development Corporation Limited and others CORAM: HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE KANWALJIT SINGH AHLUWALIA *** Present: Mr.Ramesh Sharma, Advocate for the petitioner. None for the respondents. *** KANWALJIT SINGH AHLUWALIA (ORAL) The present writ petition has been filed by one Jaswinder Pal Singh Kohli praying that a writ in the nature of certiorari be issued for quashing of Annexure P-4 whereby his prayer that he be granted the scale of pay equivalent to his counter parts getting the same in the Head Office of the Corporation has been declined. Case of the petitioner is that he was appointed as Assistant Accountant at Knitwear Facility at Ludhiana in the Punjab State Hosiery & Knitwear Development Corporation Limited on a consolidated salary of Rs.650/- p.m. and later on he was put in the scale of Rs.500-800/-, at the CWP No.5135 of 1989 [2] basic salary of Rs.650/- plus other allowances. The grievance of the petitioner is that other persons working as Assistant Account at headquarters have been granted the scale of Rs.600-1120/-. Petitioner claim that there is no rationale for granting different pay scales to Assistant Accountants in the field i.e. at Knitwear Centre, Ludhiana and at headquarters office at Chandigarh. Petitioner state that other employees working in the Knitwear Centre, vide Annexures P-1 and P-2 had been given equal pay scales which were permissible at head office. Petitioner had made representation Annexure P-3 which was rejected by the Managing Director. It was stated in Annexure P-4 rejecting the representation that for the post of Assistant Accountant in the head office in the pay scale of Rs.600-1120/-, one year experience is necessary. At the time of interview, petitioner was not having one year requisite experience. Therefore, he was posted at Knitwear Centre, Ludhiana. It has been further stated that at Knitwear Centre, Ludhiana and at head office, different salary structures of pay scale exist. The stand of the respondents is that designations at the Centre were adopted generally from the Industry's practice or terms used in the Minimum Wages Notification of the Punjab Government. I have heard Mr.Ramesh Sharma, counsel for the petitioner. A person working in a field office and at headquarters may have different responsibilities. As has been stated in the written statement, for appointment at head office, one year's experience is required, whereas no such experience at Knitwear Centre, Ludhiana was required. It was for employer to fix the pay scale taking into consideration expectations from the employee. A person posted in District headquarters or in the field, cannot claim similar pay scale which is permissible at head office or at CWP No.5135 of 1989 [3] headquarters. Petitioner has relied upon a judgement in Ram Pal v. State of Punjab, 1996(4) SCT 280 to contend that equal pay which was permissible to the employees at head office should also be paid to the employees at field office. This judgment is of no help to the petitioner as in that case Government recommended equal pay scale but the finance department had not agreed. In the present case, no such recommendation was made. Therefore, there is no merit in the present petition and the same is dismissed. ( KANWALJIT SINGH AHLUWALIA ) December 23, 2008. JUDGE RC