JUDGMENT

KULDIP SINGH, J.— The Calcutta High Court, in the impugned judgment, has struck down the categorisation of Inspectors in the Housing Department as Grade I and Grade II, on ground that it violated the principle of equal pay for equal work. The High Court further directed that the Inspectors in Housing Department be given the pay scale which was being drawn by the Inspectors in the Animal Husbandry Department of the Government of West Bengal. This appeal by the State of West Bengal is against the judgment of the High Court.

2. We may briefly State the necessary facts. The Government of West Bengal by order dated June 4, 1965 bifurcated the cadre of Inspectors in the Housing Department into two grades. The said order is reproduced hereunder;

"I am directed to say that the question of improvement in the prospects of promotion of the Inspector employed under 24 Parganas, in connection with implementation of Housing Schemes had been under consideration of Government for some time past. After considering the question in all its aspects, the Governor was pleased to sanction formation, with effect from 10-8-1964, of cadre of these Inspectors under the Housing Department with the fol