ORDER

Special leave granted.

2. The civil appeal is preferred by the State of U.P. and others questioning the judgment of the High Court of Allahabad dated 24th May, 1999 in Civil Miscellaneous Writ Petition No. 11161 of 1997. The respondents (writ petitioners) are lecturers in Northern Regional Institute of Printing Technology at Allahabad. In the writ petition the writ petitioners, sought a writ of mandamus directing the appellants herein to grant the benefit of the Government order dated 20th November, 1993 which gave the scale of Rs. 3000-4500/- on completion of 8 years of satisfactory service to lecturers in the grade of Rs. 2000-4000/- in Government Polytechnic. It was also prayed that parity be granted to the writ petitioners regarding pay and all other benefits as were available to the lecturers in Government Polytechnic. The High Court of Allahabad allowed the writ petition by the judgment under appeal. The State of U.P. has come up in appeal.

3. The brief facts of the case are as follows :

The writ petitioners are the lecturers working in the Northern Regional Institute of Printing Technology at Allahabad. Initially, their scale of pay was Rs. 550-1200/- but at the end of fiv