S. B. SINHA, J.

( 1 ) LEAVE granted.

( 2 ) EASTERN Railway Administration of Union of India is before us aggrieved by and dissatisfied with a judgment and order dated 20. 4. 2005 passed by a Division Bench of the Calcutta High Court in WPCT No. 365 of 2004 and WPCT No. 840 of 2004 dismissing the writ petitions filed by appellants from a judgment and order dated 3. 6. 2004 passed by the Central administrative Tribunal in Original Application No. 1254 of 2000 and 10th february 2004 passed by the Tribunal in Original Application No. 1458 of 1997.

( 3 ) THE short question which arose for consideration before the Tribunal and consequently before the High Court, was whether the recommendations of the Fifth Central Pay Commission could have been extended in favour of respondents herein with effect from 18. 2. 2000 in stead and in place of 1. 10. 1996; and whether their claim for fixation of pay scale with effect from 1. 1. 1996 was justified.

( 4 ) RESPONDENTS were appointed as Time Keepers in different workshops belonging to the Eastern Railway Administration. Other Railway administrations also have similar workshops. Time Keepers, although are recruited in the clerical grade, in view of