JUDGMENT :

B.R. Sarangi, J.

The petitioners, who are working under Orissa State Commission for Women, have filed this application to quash office order dated 24.01.2011 in Annexure-2 passed by the Commissioner-cum-Secretary to the Government of Orissa, Women & Child Development Department, by which the revised scale of pay granted to the petitioners have been withdrawn and they have been allowed to draw consolidated remuneration, i.e., minimum of the pay scale (pre-revised) attached to the post in terms of Finance Department circular dated 07.07.2008.

2. The factual matrix of the case, in brief, is that the petitioners were appointed in different posts under opposite party no.3 during the period from 1997 to 1998 and considering their educational qualification and after following due procedure they were absorbed. From the date of their initial absorption, they had been discharging their duties assigned to them. Consequentially, their services were regularized by the authority concerned. In absence of any Rules for recruitment of staff in the establishment of opposite party no.3, t