IN THE HIGH COURT OF HIMACHAL PRADESH SHIMLA CWP(T) No. 3857/2008 (OA 1693/96) Date of Decision : May 19, 2009 Smt. Savita Mehta Petitioner Versus State of Himachal Pradesh and another Respondents Coram: Hon’ble Mr. Justice Sanjay Karol, Judge. Whether approved for reporting?1 No. For the petitioner : Mr. K.D. Shreedhar, Advocate, for the petitioner. For the respondents : Mr. Vivek Thakur, Addl. Advocate General and Mr. J. S. Rana, Astt. Advocate General for the respondents. Sanjay Karol, J. (Oral) The petitioner has prayed for the following reliefs: “(i) That the respondent department may be directed to grant Lecturer’s scale i.e. the scale of Rs. 300-600/ 250-550 to the applicant alongwith arrears with interest thereon. (ii) That the respondents may be held liable to pay interest @ 18% for the inordinate delay in the grant of higher scale which should have been given to the applicant long before. 1 Whether reports of Local Papers may be allowed to see the judgment? 2 (iii) The respondents may be directed to produce entire record of the case including the reasons that weighed with the respondent department while deleting the name of the applicant from the list of Trained Graduate Teachers with post-graduate qualifications eligible to the grant of higher scale of Rs. 300-600/ 250-550. (iv) Any other order deemed just and proper may also be passed in the fact and circumstances of the case.” The respondents in their reply affidavit have stated as under: “4. That it is submitted that the grant of Lecturers pay scale of Rs. 300-600 and 250-550 has been given on the basis of subjects being taught in the schools on Punjab analogy. The petitioner has passed M.A. in Sociology, but the subject of Sociology was not a teaching subject in the Higher Secondary Schools during the period 1-11-1966 to 31-12-1977 and even upto 1985 till implementation of new Education Policy. Therefore no lecturer scale was given to the petitioner.” The same is not refuted by the petitioner. Since Sociology was not a teaching subject in the Higher Secondary Schools during from 1.11.1966 up to 31.12.1977 no scale of Lecturers could be granted to the petitioner. No legally enforceably right of the petitioner stands infringed. Hence the petition being devoid of merit is dismissed. (Sanjay Karol), Judge. May 19, 2009 (PK)