JUDGMENT :

1. All these petitions have been filed by the employees working in the Central Workshop of the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation those who joined service with the Corporation after 01.01.1983. They have been or they are the employees of the Municipal Corporation.

2. Special Civil Application Nos.1629 of 2022 and Special Civil Application Nos.7769 of 2022 were argued as lead matters. The prayers in Special Civil Application Nos.1629 of 2022 read as under:

“(A) Your Lordships may kindly be pleased to issue a Writ of Mandamus and/or any other appropriate writ, order or direction to direct the respondents to grant the benefits of General Provident Fund Scheme (Old Pension Scheme) of the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation to the present petitioner, which is at Annexure-E (Colly.) to this petition.

(B) Your Lordships my kindly be pleased to direct the present respondent Corporation to complete all administrative formalities in pursuance to the judgment dated 17.10.2016 passed by this Hon'ble Court in Special Civil Application No.3711 of 2014 and other allied matters for completion o