( 1 ) BOTH the writ petitions are taken up analogously for hearing and disposed of by this Judgment.

( 2 ) THE petitioner who is the one and the same person in both the Writ petitions was appointed Senior Research Assistant in the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, in 1980 in the Ford Foundation Scheme on "water Use and Management for Agricultural Production" on contract basis for a period of two years or till duration of the Scheme, whichever is earlier. He got one premature increment on obtaining Ph. D. degree. Then he was appointed Junior Scientist in December 1982 under temporary/sponsored ICAR Scheme / Project on "all India Co-ordinated Research Project on Water Management" attached to the Agricultural Engineering Department of the Institute under the general terms and conditions of the Institutes of Technology Act, 1961 and also under the terms and conditions to be executed by the Institute and the petitioner. The petitioner was granted an annual increment in pay at the rate of Rs. 40/- per month on the recommendation of the Investigator-in-Charge of the Scheme "all India Co-ordinated Research Project on Water Management" and head of the Agricultural