JUDGMENT :

DEVAN RAMACHANDRAN, J.

1. In all these cases, the challenge is to the order of Government bearing number GO (P) No. 38/21/Fin. dated 25.02.2021, through which, the Government issued certain orders relating to revision of pension and Family Pension to those coming under the scheme of the University Grants Commission (UGC).

2. Even though the Government had earlier issued two other orders, the stipulations therein were substituted through the ones contained in the aforementioned order. The petitioners are aggrieved because, in the said order, paragraph 6.1 provides as under:

The revised pension/family pension shall be granted in cash with effect from 01.04.2021. Arrears of pension revision for the period from 01.01.2016 to 30.06.2019 will be notional. Pensioners/Family Pensioners prior to 01.01.2016 are eligible to draw arrears from 01.07.2019 to 31.03.2021 on account of revision of Pension/Family Pension in four installments each at 25% of the arrears, in cash on April 2021, May 2021, August 2021 and November 2021. In the case of those who retired on or after 01.01.2016, the arrears of Pension, Family Pension, DCRG and Terminal Surrender will be disbursed as stated above. Arr