Judgment

DAS GUPTA, J. : The only question that arises for consideration in this appeal by the State Bank of India is as regards the effect of Para 292 of the Bank Award, as modified, on the respondent Parkash Chand Mehra. This respondent entered the Bank s service on February 20, 1943 it was then the Imperial Bank of India. On January 31, 1950 he was getting a salary of Rs.86 per month. On April 1,1954 he was employed at the Abohar Branch of the Imperial Bank ; and on May 15, 1954 he was transferred to Amritsar under the classification in the Bank Award, Abohar was a class IV area while Amritsar was a class II area. On the basis that Abohar was a class IV area the respondent s salary was fixed by the Bank on April 1, 1954 at Rs.112 per month; and on transfer to Amritsar- a class II area, in consideration of his length of service, he was given three increments and his salary was fixed at Rs. 133 per month. The Respondent s case is that he was entitled to three increments over Rs. 126 which it is said he was drawing at Abohar, that is Rs.148 per month. As this claim was rejected by the Bank authorities he made as application under Ss.33 (b) determining the money payable under the Awa