JUDGMENT :

1. By way of the present writ petition under Article 226 of the Constitution of India, the petitioner has, inter alia, prayed for the following reliefs:

“(A) To issue a writ of mandamus or a writ in the nature of mandamus or any other appropriate writ, order or direction directing the respondent Nos.1 and 2 to release increment to the petitioner as per revised pay scale @ 3% of revised pay scale as per the settlement with the Union on 30.6.2009 or as per the past practice prevailing in the erstwhile Gujarat Electricity Board as narrated in the Memo of Petition and give all consequential benefits and revised pay scale to the petitioner accordingly from 1.1.2006 till date and release all the monetary benefits consequent thereupon; OR

IN THE ALTERNATIVE;

To issue a writ of mandamus or a writ in the nature of mandamus or any other appropriate writ, order or direction directing the respondent Nos.1 and 2 to act as per the government notification dated 27.02.2009 whereby government has decided to implement the revised pay scale to all its employees w.e.f. 1.1.2006 and direct t