( 1 ) IN pursuance of a show cause notice against admission, the respondents put in appearance and on the authority of Kanti Prasad v. J. N. K. V. Vidyalaya AIR 1971 Madh Pra 15, raised a preliminary abjection (I. A. No. 2484/86) about maintainability of the petition at Gwalior. The abjection was first heard by me and brother Rampal Singh, J. in a Division Bench, but instead of deciding it ourselves in a Division Bench, we considered it proper to have the objection decided by a larger Bench in view of its importance and far reaching effect. Accordingly we made a recommendation to Hon'ble the Chief Justice for constituting a larger Bench for resolving the objection. This is how this Full Bench has been constituted.

( 2 ) THE petitioner is an Assistant Professor in the Agriculture College, Gwalior run by the Jawaharlal Nehru Krishi Vishwa Vidyalaya, Jabalpur, (for short, "the University" ). He is aggrieved by his pay fixation and seeks a direction to the University for fixation of his pay"in the scale of Rs. 700-1600 by giving him five increments over the pay which he was drawing in his earlier place of posting. "

( 3 ) THE respondents say that the petition is not ma