Tinlianthang Vaiphei, J.

1. Both these writ petitions involving a common question of facts and of law, having heard together, are now being disposed by this common judgment. In W.P. (C) No. 4355 of 2010, the grievance of the petitioner-association is directed against the refusal of the respondent authorities to pay medical allowance (MA), house rent allowance (HRA) and city compensatory allowance (CCA) as the components of their unpaid salaries while accepting the Voluntary Retirement Scheme (VRS). In W.P. (C) No. 994 of 2004, the sister association is claiming payment of salary due to its members with effect from 30.4.2006 to the date of their acceptance of VRS, which is in addition to the reliefs claimed in WP(C) No. 4355 of 2010. Though the facts pleaded by the parties are many, it is not necessary to reproduce them all for the purpose of disposal of these writ petitions, which can be decided on a narrow compass. Suffice it to say that members of the two petitioner-associations are the employees of the erstwhile Assam State Co-operative Marketing & Consumers Federation Limited popularly known as STATFED, which was set up on 9.8.1975 on the re-organization of the erstwhile