ORDER :

1. Heard Mr. Indrajit Sinha and Mr. Gunendra Mohan Mishra, learned counsel appearing for the petitioner and Mrs. M.M. Pal, learned senior counsel appearing for the respondents assisted by Ms. Aparajita Sinha, Advocate.

2. Respondent-SAIL in the Original Application decided by order dated 09.01.2019, by learned Central Administrative Tribunal, Patna Bench, Circuit Sitting at Ranchi (Annexure-1) has preferred these writ petitions being aggrieved by quashing of para-2(iv) of the notification dated 29.12.2015 issued by SAIL and the direction to make payment of additional fixed amount as mentioned in the said order dated 29.12.2015 to the affected employees from the respective dates on which the pay anomaly occurred. Rest of the conditions in the notification dated 29.12.2015 remained the same.

3. The undisputed facts of the parties are briefly stated hereinafter :

For convenience facts as are borne on record in W.P. (S) No. 2663 of 2019 are being referred to. Applicants joined Bokaro Steel Plant under SAIL between 1976-1994 in non-executive cadre. Wage revision was effected for both non-executive and executive cadre w.e.f. 01.01.2007. Some of the applicants were promoted to executi