Civil Writ Petition No. 12018 of 2011 -1- IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No. 12018 of 2011 Date of decision:- 15.7.2011 Narinder Jeet Kumari ...Petitioner Versus State of Punjab and others ...Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MS. JUSTICE RITU BAHRI Present:- Mr. I.P.S. Kohli, Advocate for the petitioner. RITU BAHRI J.(Oral) Notice of motion. On asking of Court Mr. Puneet Gupta, Addl. A.G. Punjab accepts notice on behalf of respondents. Counsel for the petitioner is directed to supply copy of petition to State Counsel today itself during the course of the day. The petitioner is claiming parity of pay-scale with the teachers in the same cadre. Petitioner is from the cadre of classical and vernacular cadre comprising of language and other teachers including Hindi, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Urdu, PTI, Art & Craft, Drawing, Sewing teachers, Manual Training Instructors (MTI) and Agriculture Instructors. The issue has been decided by a number of judgments by this Court, hence, eventually the Government of Punjab has issued general instructions on 12.5.2011 to grant the same pay-scale. As per these instructions payment of arrears shall be made in five annual and two annual installments respectively for serving and retired employees. Grant of scale is subject to outcome of LPA, if any, filed by the State. In view of the instructions issued by the Government of Punjab, this Civil Writ Petition No. 12018 of 2011 -2- writ petition is disposed of giving direction to the respondent to consider the case of the petitioner in view of instructions dated 12.5.2011 and fix the salary of the petitioners and release her first installment of arrears within a period of two months. July 15, 2011 ( RITU BAHRI ) Vijay Asija JUDGE