JUDGMENT

K. Venkataswami, J.-The members of the respondent-Association who were appointed in the Directorate of Information after 1.4.1965 moved the Allahabad High Court (Lucknow Bench) for the issue of writ of mandamus directing the appellant to give them pay scale of Lower Division and Upper Division Assistants at par with employees working in the Secretariat U.P.

2. The High Court accepting their prayer issued a writ of mandamus directing the appellants to give the pay scale as prayed for in writ petition. Aggrieved by that, the present appeal is filed by special leave.

3. Before 1.4.1965, the ministerial employees of the Directorate of Information and U.P. Secretariat were in the same pay-scales because there was a joint set up of the Directorate of Information and U.P. Secretariat. The Government of U.P. appointed a committee on 13.7.1964 for rationalization of pay-scales and other conditions of service of various grades of State Government employees. One of the recommendations of the said committee was that the pay scales for the employees of the Directorate of Information should be like the pay scales of the employees working under other heads of Department. This recommendation