JUDGMENT

S.B. Sinha, J.

1. These two appeals involving identical question of law and fact were taken up for hearing together and are being disposed of by this common judgment.

2. The factual matrix, is, however, being noticed from Civil Appeal No. 1382 of 1999.

3. On or about 6.8.1981, the respondent was appointed as Sewing Teacher on regular basis in the pay scale of Rs. 480-880/- by the District Education Officer, Ferozepur. She claimed same scale of pay payable to Classical and Vernacular Teachers. The said representation of the respondent was, however, rejected.

4. Aggrieved by and dissatisfied with the said order, a writ petition was filed by her before the Punjab and Haryana High Court which by reason of the impugned judgment was allowed relying on or on the basis of the earlier decisions of the said court in Amarjit Kaur vs. State of Punjab, (1988 (4) SLR 199) and Prabjot Kaur vs. State of Punjab (1994 (3) SCT 262).

5. The learned counsel appearing on behalf of the appellants would submit that the High Court committed a manifest error in passing the impugned judgment insofar it failed to take into consideration that the Education Department of the Government of Punjab had made rul