By the Court.—Heard Shri O. P. Srivastava, learned Senior Advocate assisted by Shri Virendra Kumar and Shri O.P. Tiwari, learned counsel for the petitioner, Shri Raj Kumar Singh, learned counsel for the respondent and perused the record.

2. By means of the present writ petition, the petitioners have challenged the impugned judgment and order dated 14.7.2014 passed by Central Administrative Tribunal, Lucknow Bench, Lucknow in Original Application No. 355 of 2011.

3. Facts in brief of the present case are that petitioners were appointed as Gramin Dak Sevak-Delivery Agent on 23.7.1979 and 7.10.1991 respectively at Unnao Head Office. From the year 2001, they did not complete the work of delivery of dak within 4 to 5 hours. They were required to cover about 30 to 35 Kms for delivering of dak at different places which took about 06 to 07 hours. Further, it takes about 02 hours for collecting the dak from the post office and in this way, the petitioners worked 08 to 09 hours daily. It has been stated that the regularly appointed Postmen also discharge the same nature of duties for 08 hours daily like the petitioners but the petitioners are not paid the same pay and allowances and