By the Court.—The appellant State Government has filed this bunch of special appeals challenging the judgment and order of learned single Judge allowing the writ petitions filed by the respondents herein.

2. By the writ petitions filed between the year 1997 to 2006, the respondents claimed that they were working in various capacity as Workman Agent or Workmen and Technicians in State Public Works Department and sought parity with the similar cadres of the Central Public Works Department by seeking certain increments in their pay-scales. The prayers in the writ petitions were to give equal pay-scale of Rs. 1200-1800 with effect from 1.1.1986 and thereafter Rs. 4000-6000/- with effect from 1.1.1996. Certain other orders have been challenged by some persons claiming that their pay-scales had been wrongly reduced. The claim is on the basis that in the report of Fourth Pay Commission given in the year 1986, another cadre of Work Supervisor and Junior Engineers working in the Central Public Works Department were granted those scales. The petitioners claimed that they were putting in same work as was being put in by the concerned cadre in Central Public Works Department. Strong re