JUDGMENT :

(Prayer: Writ Petition filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India praying for the issuance of Writ of Certiorari to call for the records connected with the proceedings/orders passed by the 1st respondent in Lr.No.AG(A&E)/Legal cell/WP 26002/2007/IV/486 dated 4.7.2008 passed by the 1st respondent and quash the same in so far as it reduced the scale of the petitioner from Rs.5000-150-8000 to 4300-100-6000 and consequently reduced the DCRG and other final settlement amounts and quash the same and further direct the respondents to settle all petitioner's entire final settlement amounts in the scale of pay Rs.5000-150-8000 and consequentially allow pension.)

1. The petitioner joined service in the Public Works Department (PWD) on 22.06.1971 as Work Inspector Grade II and was provincialised on 22.06.1976.

2. The Tamil Nadu Public Works Department Employees’ Association came to file O.A.No.2113 of 1992 before the Tamil Nadu Administrative Tribunal (Tribunal) seeking pay protection for various categories of employees who were in Grade posts under a Scheme called Flexible Complementing Scheme (Scheme). Pursuant to, and giving effect to the directions of the Tribunal dated