JUDGMENT :

1. By way of this petition the petitioner prayed for quashing and setting aside the letter dated 20.05.2005 whereby the petitioner was informed that his request for advance increments in the revised pay-scale of Rs.1200-1900 on the date of his appointment in the University came to be rejected.

1.1 The petitioner, seeking such revision of pay, requested to apply the principle as was applied in the case of Dr. B.M. Gupta serving in the very same University. The petitioner was appointed vide order dated 08.07.1976 as Entomologist in All India Coordinate Research Project on Sorghum Improvement, Navsari with the starting pay of Rs.1050/- per month in the pay-scale of Rs.700–1250 plus usual allowances as per the University Rules with effect from the date of taking over the charge of the said post. Pursuant to the said order the petitioner joined the services on 11.10.1976. It is the case of the petitioner that the pay-scale of Rs.700–1250 came to be revised to Rs.1200 – 1900 with effect from 01.01.1973. Pursuant to the revision of pay, the pay of the petitioner was fixed by proforma fixation, which is at page 12 of the petition. By the said pay fixation, pay of the petitioner wa