JUDGMENT :

BELA M. TRIVEDI, J.

1. Leave granted.

2. The present appeal is directed against the judgment and order dated 30.08.2018 passed by the Division Bench of the High Court of Punjab and Haryana at Chandigarh in LPA No. 2062 of 2014 (O&M), whereby the Division Bench has dismissed the appeal filed by the appellants-Punjab State Power Corporation Limited (previously Punjab State Electricity Board, hereinafter referred to as ‘PSEB’), arising out of the order dated 03.07.2014 passed by the Single Bench in CWP No. 3232 of 1993.

3. The PSEB in order to settle the issue of stagnation in various cadres of regular employees, had passed an office order on 19.07.1989 introducing a scheme to allow a time bound benefit of the higher scale on their completion of 9 and 16 years of services. In continuation of the said order, the PSEB also issued a circular dated 20.07.1989 granting the benefit of the first and second time bound higher scales to the employees including the Junior Engineers-II, as per the Schedule-I attached thereto, with effect from 01.05.1989. Since the PSEB had found that t