ORAL JUDGMENT

1. With the consent of the learned advocate for the respective parties, the petition is taken up for final hearing.

2. RULE returnable forthwith. Ms.Surbhi Bhati learned AGP waives service of Rule on behalf of the respondents.

3. By way of this petition under Article 226 of the Constitution of India, the prayer of the petitioner is to declare and held that the petitioners are at par with other pensioners as defined under the Gujarat Civil Services (Pension) Rules, 2002 and are entitled to all the benefits which are available to them and they be made available to the petitioners. By a subsequent amendment made in the petition, the prayer also is to quash and set aside the Government Resolution dated 21.03.2020 to the extent of it being effective from 01.03.2020, denying arrears prior to that date the case of the petitioners is that the petitioners joined the services of the State Government in Food and Civil Supplies Department on various dates on creation of the Gujarat State Civil Supplies Corporation on 02.10.1980, the petitioners were sent on deputation to the Corporation since the activities were assigned to the Corporation. In the year 1986, the State Government de