ORDER

Leave granted.

2. These appeals by the State of Haryana are directed against the impugned judgment of the High Court of Punjab & Haryana. The dispute centres round the question whether the teachers of privately managed recognised aided schools would be entitled to the benefits which the government had conferred by issuing circulars at different point of time. In this batch of cases we are concerned with four such circulars. i.e. circulars dated 14.5.1991, 7.8.1992, 7.1.1994 and 8.2.1994. Out of these four circulars, the first two circulars appear to have been issued as an incentive to the employees of the Government of Haryana State and the third circular is an interim relief granted to them while the matter of revision of pay was under consideration before the Pay Commission. The fourth circular dated 8.2.1994 is a higher scale of pay to the teachers of the Government schools in Haryana on certain contingencies. When the teachers of the privately managed schools filed the writ petition before the High Court, the state did not file any counter affidavit. In course of arguments before the High Court the learned counsel appearing for the State of Haryana conceded that the circula