Bharat Prasad Sharma, J.

1. These cases have been filed on behalf of some of the technical supervisors and workshop superintendents working under the Rajendra Agricultural University (hereinafter referred to as the University) for a common relief. Therefore, they have been heard together and are being disposed of by a common order. Basic question that has been raised for consideration is whether technical supervisors and workshop superintendents working under the University are University teachers within the ambit and scope of Sec. 2(xxviii) of the Bihar Agricultural University Act, 1987 (hereinafter referred to as the Act) and instructions framed and issued thereunder by the University? If so; whether they are entitled to the University Grants Commissions new revised scales of pay to all the University teachers of Agricultural University and other consequential benefits.

Another prayer has also been made challenging the validity of the Faculty Development Programme of the University vide minutes of the proceedings dated 24.12.1993. (Annexure 10 of C.W.J.C. 4247 of 1996) rejecting the claim of the petitioners to allow them to participate in the Faculty Development Programme