FACTS :- The suits were filed by Krishna and others (plaintiffs) who were head masters and first assistants in charge of the primary schools under the administration of the District Local Board, East Khandesh, Jalgaon, (defendant 1).

Before the enactment of the Bombay Primary Education Act, Bom IV (4) of 1923, the primary schools were under the Government and all teachers in those primary schools were employed under the Education Department of the Provincial Government. When the Bombay Primary Education Act was enacted it provided for absorption of existing educational staff by the local authorities and relevant provisions were enacted in the Act providing for such absorption. This transfer of primary teachers from the employment of the Government to the employment of the local authorities took place with effect from 1st July 1925. Before that, however, there had been certain revision of the scales of pay granted to the primary teachers by the Government as a result of the deliberations of a committee which had been appointed by the Government in that behalf. The Government had passed on 24th March 1924, a resolution with reference to the revision of time scales and selecti