( 1 ) BY filing this petition under Article 227 of the Constitution of India, the petitioner Divisional Controller, Gujarat State Road Transport Corporation, rajkot has challenged the judgment and award dated 13. 07. 1988 passed by the industrial Tribunal, Rajkot in Reference (IT) No. 18 of 1984 (old (IT) No. 233 of 1977) and order dated 19. 12. 1988 in Misc. Application No. 2 of 1988 in reference (IT) No. 18 of 1984. By the aforesaid judgment and award dated 13. 7. 1988, the petitioner "corporation was directed to place the respondent in Matriculate Clerk Grade with effect from 1. 7. 1977 within one month from the publication of the award and it was also directed that the petitioner" corporation should pay the difference amount till the date for which the respondent is entitled.

( 2 ) IT appears from the record that the respondent and other workmen raised an industrial dispute which was referred to the Industrial Tribunal, Rajkot for adjudication. The respondent and other workmen filed statement of claims, wherein a demand was raised that the respondent and other workmen who are matriculate should be placed in the revised pay scale as per Resolution No. 555 passed by the petitione

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