JUDGMENT :

1. By this petition the petitioner, inter alia, has prayed for direction to the respondents to grant the pay revision, commensurate with the length of his service as provided in Government Resolution dated 17.10.1988 as well as direction for upward revision of pay as per the subsequent Government Resolutions issued by the State Government from time to time, with all consequential benefits.

2. Tersely stated are the facts:

2.1 The petitioner had joined the service under the respondent nos. 1 and 2 on 1.9.1988 as a daily wager driver. The service of the petitioner came to be terminated on 6.8.1989 and being aggrieved, the petitioner raised an industrial dispute before the Labour Court, Bhavnagar, which culminated into Reference (LCB) No.528 of 1989. Vide award dated 15.5.1991, the Labour Court, Bhavnagar, directed the respondents to reinstate the petitioner with continuity of service but without back wages. Accordingly, the District Development Officer, Bhavnagar vide communication dated 10.10.1995, addressed to the Taluka Development Officer, directed to reinstate the petitioner in terms of the Award dated 15.5.1991.

2.2 In the interregnum, vide order dated 18/25.10.1993 pass