JUDGMENT :

B.P. Das, J. - The Petitioners, who are working as Operators of the Net Unit (Macheswar) in Orissa Maritime & Chilika Area Development Corporation, which is now renamed as Orissa Pisci? Culture Development Corporation Ltd., have filed this writ application making a grievance that the O. Ps. are not paying them the salary in the scale of pay of Rs. 1005-1830/- from the date of their appointment up to 30.4.1989 and in the scale of pay of Rs. 1400-2300/ - with effect from 1.5.1989 and other allowances along with the arrear salary.

2. According to the Petitioners, in the 66th. Meeting of the Board of Directors of the Corporation, a decision was taken that the revised pay scale of the employees of the Corporation would be at par with the Government Revised Scale of Pay Rules, 1989, which would come into force from 1.5.1989, but the employees would get their cash benefits from 1.4.1991, and the arrears for the period from 1.5.1989 to 31.3.1991 would not be considered. As per the Writ Petition, the operators of the State Government were getting the scale of pay of Rs. 1500-1830 in the Revised Scale of Pay Rules, 1985 whereas the Petitioners were paid in the scale of pay of Rs. 78