JUDGMENT :- Delay condoned.

( 2 ) LEAVE granted.

( 3 ) WE have heard learned counsel on both sides.

( 4 ) THIS appeal by special leave arises from the order of the Punjab and Haryana High Court, made on 2/11/1995 in C. W. P. No. 16409/92. The controversy raised is for the advance increment. In which scale of pay the respondents are entitled to advance increment is the question? Admittedly, the respondents were appointed on substantive posts of JBT Teachers and they were temporarily promoted as Head Teachers. The scale of pay for the JBT Teachers is Rs. 1200-2100. 00. They are discharging the duities temporarily as Head Teachers in the initial pay of Rs. 1410. 00. They claimed advance increment for discharging the duty as Head Teachers. The High Court has construed that they are entitled to the advance increment as Head Teachers. Rule 4 (4) of the Punjab Civil Services Rules, Volume I, Part I which reads as under:

"4. 4 The initial substantive pay of a Government employee who is appointed substantively to a post on a time-scale of pay is regulated as follows:

(I) When appointment to the new post involves the assumption of duties or responsibilities of greater importance (as interprete