JUDGMENT

Ritu Bahri, J. - The petitioners were appointed as Pharmacists on contract basis in Urban Health Centre. They had been selected by Civil Surgeon, Hisar. They are seeking directions to the respondents to grant them minimum of the regular pay scale along with other allowances from the date of their initial appointment and to pay arrears @ 18% per annum.

2. Briefly stated, the facts of the case are that the petitioners were appointed as Pharmacists on different dates on contract basis in Urban Health Centre by the Civil Surgeon, Hisar. The appointment letters of some of the petitioners are attached as Annexure P-2 (Colly.). Copy of the certificates issued by Haryana State Pharmacy Council regarding the registration of the petitioners as Pharmacist are annexed as Annexure P-1 (Colly). The grievance of the petitioners is that in the appointment letter, it had been specifically mentioned that they will be paid consolidated honorarium @ Rs. 12,000/- per month. But later on the same had been reduced to Rs.9400/- per month vide letter dated 26.8.2010. Though, later on, the salary of the petitioners had been increased. For e.g. petitioner no.1 i.e Pankaj had been granted consolidated