JUDGMENT

Sanjay Kishan Kaul, J.

1. The petitioner, Akhil Bhartiya Anganwadi Kamgar Union, filed a petition under Article 32 of the Constitution of India before the Hon'ble Supreme Court seeking the status of Government employees for anganwadi workers and anganwadi helpers and praying for pay parity with primary teachers and nurses of establishments or of any local authority in the pay scale of Rs.1400-2300 for anganwadi workers and in the pay scale of Rs.800-1150 to anganwadi helpers on parity with ayas/peons with past benefit of service from the date of their appointments. A further prayer made was to merge these categories with seven other categories of the Scheme of Integrated Child Development Service Scheme ('the said Scheme' for short) stated to have been formulated in pursuance to the National Policy for Children.

2. The writ petition was, however, transferred to this Court to be treated as petition under Article 226 of the Constitution of India in terms of the order of the Supreme Court dated 27.02.1992.

3. The writ petition was admitted on 14.05.1993 when on the interim application, the statement of the counsel for the then Delhi Administration (now Govt. of NCT of D