( 1 ) THE Third central Pay Commission after examining the scales of various categories of workers in the Ordnance Factory reduced the existing 19 scales for the industrial staff in various defence establishments to 5 scales varying from unskilled to highly skilled Grade I categories. At the same time, the Commission also recommended the setting up of an Expert Classification Committee (ECC) to carry out a proper classification on scientific job-evaluation basis. The ECC was set up in October 1974 and it submitted its report in 1979 recommending 9 pay scales. The government examined the report of the ECC and while agreeing with the job-evaluation done on point rating method, it disagreed with the recommendation that the total number of pay scales should be 9 instead of 5. The government took a decision in October 1981 that there should be only 5 scales for industrial workers. That was also the demand of the two federations of employees. The compression of 9 pay scales into 5 pay scales had to be done on the basis of mid-point rating of the points allotted by the ECC for each category on the result of job-evaluation. At the floor level up to point 205 the wage scale fixed was Rs. 19