HARPREET SINGH BRAR J. (Oral)

1. The present civil writ petition has been filed under Articles 226/227 of the Constitution of India for issuance of a writ in the nature of mandamus directing the respondents to modify their own orders Annexure P-13, P-16 and P-16A and for granting higher pay scale of the post from which the petitioners were promoted. Further a writ of certiorari has been sought, for quashing the impugned order dated

04.04.1989 (Annexure P-17).

FACTUAL BACKGROUND

2. Briefly the facts of the case are that the petitioners were employees of the respondent-Corporation. They were initially part of a joint feeder cadre (Assistants/Accounts Assistants, etc.) and drawing a pay scale of Rs. 800-1400 in the feeder cadre, which was later redesignated as Assistant District Managers (ADMs). The promotion from this feeder cadre is to the post of Enforcement Officer, later redesignated as District Manager (DM). However, upon promotion to the higher post of District Manager, they were placed in a lower pay scale of Rs. 700-1200. The respondent-Corporation's Board of Directors, in its meeting on 26.12.1988, decided to revise the pay scale for District Managers from Rs. 700-1200 to Rs.