JUDGMENT

1. This writ petition has been filed by the petitioner to direct the respondents to consider prescribing similar pay scale of Rs.9300- 34800+GP 4200 to the post of Health Educator so as to maintain the equivalency and analogousness amongst the post of Health Educator and Health Inspector, Department of Community Medicine, RIMS by reconsidering the present pay scale of Rs.5200 pay band plus GP 2800.

2. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned counsel for the respondents.

3. The case of the petitioner is that he joined the service as Health Educator in the Department of Community Medicine and in the initial appointment order, the pay scale for the post of Health Educator was prescribed as 1400-2300/-. Subsequently, in pursuance of the decision taken in the 18th Executive Council, Society of RIMS, Imphal held on 28.6.2000, the Chairman of the Executive Council declared that the post of Health Inspector and Health Educator, RIMS should be one and the identical time scale of pay of Rs.4500-7000 for future appointment vide order dated 21.7.2000. Consequently, the petitioner was granted pay scale of Rs.4500-7000 in the 5th Revision of Pay along with the post of Health In