JUDGMENT :

Rabindranath Samanta, J :

1. Challenge in this writ petition is against an order passed by the Director of Mass Education Extension, West Bengal by which the petitioner’s representation seeking higher scale of pay was rejected.

2. Background facts giving rise to the writ petition may succinctly be stated as follows:

The Calcutta Deaf and Dumb School is an educational institution which imparts education to the hearing impaired students up to Secondary School leaving level. The petitioner Promit Kumar Choudhury was appointed as an Accountant in the school on 18th January, 1999 at the scale of pay of Rs. 1040-1920/-and other allowances. After completion of probation period, the governing body of the school confirmed his service and the Director, Mass Education Extension approved his appointment in the aforesaid scale of pay of Rs. 1040-1920/-. The scale of pay of Rs. 1040-1920/-was allowed to the incumbents holding the post of Junior Clerk in other sponsored institutions. Long after his appointment was approved by the Director of Mass Education Extension, the petitioner came to know that in other similar sponsored institutions, the incumbents holding the post of Accountant are