( 1. ) THIS writ petition challenges the validity of the M. P. Work-Charged and contingency Paid Employees Revision of Pay Rules, 1984 (hereinafter referred to as the Rules) on the ground that in so far as they provide two scales of pay -one existing and the other revised, are violative of Article 14 and 16 of the Constitution. The Rules were published in the M. P. Gazette Extraordinary, dated 3-3-1984. However, clause (b) of Rule 1 provides that the Rules shall be deemed to have come into force on the first day of April 1982.

( 2. ) THE writ petition has not been filed by any person who may have been affected by the alleged discrimination, but by Karyabharit Evam Dainik Vetan Karmachari sangh, Bargi Nagar, Jabalpur which claims to be a duly constituted union registered under the Trade Unions Act, having a vast following in a Project known as Bargi project. Its case is that certain persons who are its members, were appointed under the bargi Project Scheme on various posts of work charged category on different dates after 1-4-1982 on the existing scales of pay which were lower than the revised scales of pay fixed by the Rules. According to the petitioner, its aforesaid memb