Vasanti A. Naik, J.

By this writ petition, the petitioner Union of India and others challenge the order of the Central Administrative Tribunal, Nagpur dated 25th October, 2010 allowing the original application filed by the respondent Nos.2 to 28 and directing the petitioners to grant the monetary benefits to the respondent Nos.2 to 28 w.e.f. 1.1.1996.

2. The facts involved in this writ petition are very brief. The respondent Nos.2 to 28 are the Senior Technical Assistants (Geology) working in the Indian Bureau of Mines. The 5th Pay Commission made some recommendations in respect of pay revision for the employees in various cadres of the Government of India. However, in the said recommendations, there was no specific recommendation for hike in the pay scale of Senior Technical Assistants (Geology) working in the Indian Bureau of Mines. According to the respondent Nos.2 to 28, as per the recommendations of the 5th Pay Commission, higher pay scale and grade was recommended for the Senior Technical Assistants working with the Geological Survey of India, but there was no specific recommendation in respect of the Senior Technical Assistants working with the Indian Bureau of Mines