Markandey Katju, C.J.: This writ appeal has been filed against the order of the learned single Judge dated 8.10.2003.

2. Heard learned counsel for the parties and perused the records.

3. The writ petition was filed by an Association of Graduate Engineers in the Tamil Nadu Electricity Board. The dispute is between the Graduate Engineers on the one hand, and the diploma holders, who were appointed as Technical Assistants and Junior Engineers Gr.II, and who can subsequently be promoted as Assistant Engineers if they acquire B.E. Degree or A.M.I.E. through part time course or correspondence studies by internal selection, on the other. It is alleged in para.2 of the affidavit filed in support of the writ petition that the directly recruited Assistant Engineers are seniors, and they were all along drawing a higher pay than the internally selected Assistant Engineers, who are their juniors, in every wage revision. However, now some of the internally selected juniors are getting more pay than the directly recruited Assistant Engineers, who are seniors, and this has happened on account of the wage revision w.e.f., 1.12.1996 providing grant of additional increments on the basis of the number o

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