JUDGMENT :

Shree Chandrashekhar, ACJ.

This batch of Letters Patent Appeals is directed against the common order pronounced by the writ Court in a batch of writ petitions vide W.P.(S) No. 3894 of 2019, W.P.(S) No. 2491 of 2009, W.P.(S) No. 4051 of 2018, W.P.(S) No. 4145 of 2018, W.P.(S) No. 6345 of 2018, W.P.(S) No. 437 of 2021, W.P.(S) No. 4366 of 2021 and W.P.(S) No. 1196 of 2022.

2. The issue before the writ Court was whether the Physical Instructors of +2 schools are entitled for grade pay of Rs.4800/-. The State of Jharkhand set up a stand that the Physical Instructors of +2 schools shall be provided grade pay of Rs.4200/- and not of Rs.4800/- if they do not possess the qualification prescribed by the Central Government. The further case pleaded by the State of Jharkhand was that the Physical Instructors were appointed under the erstwhile State of Bihar and presently their counter-parts in the State of Bihar are getting grade pay of Rs.4200/- and, therefore, parity and uniformity should be maintained in the pay scale and grade pay of the Physical Instructors working in the State of Bihar and the State of Jharkhand. The writ Court referred to a decision in W.P.(S) 2696 of 2009 wh