Judgment

N. M. KASLIWAL

( 1 ). All these cases are an upshot of the case R. D. Gupta v. Lt.-Governor, Delhi Administration. It is not necessary for us to give the background and history of the constitution of the two main civic bodies namely, New Delhi Municipal Committee (in short ndmc) and the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (in short mcd), in the Union Territory of Del hi as the same has already been mentioned in detail in the above R. D. Gupta case. We would thus mention only such details which are relevant and necessary for the purpose of deciding the above cases. All the above cases relate to the employees of the NDMC who are claiming the benefit of the report of Shiv Shankar Committee (in short ssc) in respect of the grant of pay-scales as allowed to other employees of NDMC in R. D. Gupta case.

( 2 ). The government accepted the report of the Third Pay Commission and granted pay-scales as recommended to the employees of NDMC as well as to the MCD. The technical staff of the Delhi Electricity Supplyundertaking (in short desu) claimed higher scales of pay as they were not satisfied with the pay-scales recommended by the Third Pay Commission. The government therefore constituted S