Judgment

B.N. Agrawal, J.—Leave granted.

2. Question that arises in these batch of cases is as to whether amendment made in Rule 56(a) of Uttar Pradesh Fundamental Rules (in short ‘the Rules’) by Notification dated June 27, 2002 enhancing age of superannuation of government servants from 58 years to 60 years would be applicable to the employees of Uttar Pradesh Jal Nigam (hereinafter referred to as ‘the Nigam’).

3. Appellants of these appeals as well as petitioners in the Writ Petitions were employed in the Local Self Government Engineering Department of the Government of Uttar Pradesh. In the year 1975, the State Legislature promulgated an Act, viz., Uttar Pradesh Water Supply & Sewerage Act, 1975 (hereinafter referred to as ‘the Act’), under Section 3 whereof, the State Government was empowered to issue notification to constitute a corporation by the name of the Uttar Pradesh Jal Nigam pursuant to which a notification was issued establishing the same with effect from 18th June, 1975. From the date of the establishment of the Nigam, which is the appointed date as enumerated in Section 31 of the Act, all properties and assets which immediately before the appointed date were vested in