Hon’ble Arun Tandon, J.—Heard Shri H.C. Singh on behalf of the petitioner, Standing Counsel on behalf of the respondents.

2. These four writ petitions have been filed by employees who have been working as Draftsmen in the Irrigation Department of the State of U.P. as well as by their Association. All these writ petitions are directed against the orders issued vide letter of the Director, Adhishthan Punarikshan Bureau (Finance), U.P., Lucknow whereby after test checking it has been pointed out that payment of promotional pay scale as well as second promotional pay scale to the Draftsmen working in the Irrigation Department of the State of U.P. has wrongly been fixed accordingly consequential orders have been issued by the Engineer-in-Chief as well as by the other subordinate officers of the Irrigation Department for re-fixation of the same as well as for recovery of the excess amount paid to the petitioners.

3. For the purposes of the present writ petition the following facts may be recorded :

Petitioners have been admittedly working as Draftsmen in the Irrigation Department of the State of U.P. The service conditions applicable to the petitioners are regulated in accordance wi