S.S.Sandhawalia and JJ.

1. Whether Assistant Research Officers are University teachers within the ambit pf Sec.2(25) and (26) of the Rajendra Agricultural University Act 1971 and the statutes and authoritative instructions framed and issued thereunder? If so, whether they are entitled to the University Grant Commissions new revised scales of pay for all University teachers of the Agricultural University? This is the twin question emerging from this difference of opinion between the learned Judges of the Division Bench necessitating its placing for an authoritative judgment by this Full Bench.

2. The matrix of facts, which is broadly common, may be noticed somewhat briefly for Kamla Kant Roy and Ors. V/s. The State of Bihar and Ors. C.W.J.C. No. 3622 of 1979. Admittedly there are four Faculties in the Rajendra Agricultural University (hereinafter referred to as "the University"). These are (a) Agriculture, (b) Veterinary Science, (c) Basic and Humanities, and (d) Home Science. Apart from posts equivalent to post of Professor and Associate Professor has been sanctioned for the University headquarters. The existing category of posts the these--Deans and Directors, Principals o