JUDGMENT

S.C. AGRAWAL, J.:— These writ petitions filed under Article 32 of the Constitution by the Employees of Tannery & Footwear Corporation of India Limited (hereinafter referred to as the respondent corporation) relate to the revision of pay and allowances of the employees in the unionised cadre of the respondent-corporation.

2. The respondent-corporation is a Company registered under the Companies Act, 1956. It was set up for the purpose of taking over the two units of the British India Corporation Limited, namely, Cooper Allen and North West Tennery. It is an undertaking owned by the Government of India and it functions under the administrative control of Ministry of Industry, Department of Industrial Development. The pay-scales of the employees of the respondent-corporation are faked and revised as per orders of the Central Government issued from time to time with the prior approval of Bureau of Public Enterprises. In these petitions we are concerned with the employees in the unionised cadre falling in four categories:

(i) Peons, Watchmen, etc.

(ii) Jamadars, Recorders, etc.

(iii) Lower Division Clerks, Clerk-cum-Typists, Compounders, Teachers, Typists, Nurses. Drivers, etc.

(iv)