1. Heard the parties.

2. In all these cases claims and grievances of the petitioners are almost same and similar and the respondents are also the same. Some of the petitioners had retired as assistant teachers and some as headmasters from primary/middle schools situated within the district Jehanabad which has been bifurcated from erstwhile, Gaya district. In some of the cases grievances are in three folds.

(i) That the petitioners have not received their G.P.F. accumulated amounts with statutory interest for the period prior to December, 1976 when such accumulations and accounts were being maintained and kept by the District Superintendent Education, Gaya. (ii) For payment of arrears of salary from 1.1.1971 to 31.3.1973, which as per the Government resolutions had been deposited with the G.P.F. accounts of the individual teacher and were to be paid at the time of their retirement along with interest, had not been paid. In some of the cases there is third prayer to the effect that an amount of Rs. 1,000/- had been deducted from the gratuity amount or rather kept in abeyance, which should be disbursed immediately with interest. Various such cases have been filed before this C