IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Date of decision: 05.05.2025 Mrs. Raksha Devi and others ...Petitioners VERSUS Union of India and others ...Respondents CORAM : HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE VINOD S. BHARDWAJ Present :- Mr. R.K. Arora, Advocate and Mr. Jugam Arora, Advocate;

Mr. Prabhat Kashyap, Advocate for the petitioner(s).

Ms. Anita Balyan, Advocate for the respondent(s)-UOI.

Mr. I.S. Sidhu, Advocate for respondent No.4.

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VINOD S. BHARDWAJ, J. (Oral)

1. Prayer in the present petition is for directing the respondents to release the pay-scale of Rs.1640-2900 w.e.f. 01.01.1986 alongwith the arrears and interest @18% per annum to the petitioners at par with what has been granted to the Senior Stenographers/Stenographers Grade ‘C’ working in the Central Secretariat Stenographers Services (CSSS), who were earlier placed in the same unrevised scale of Rs.1400-2600 alongwith the petitioners.

2. Learned counsel has argued that the petitioners were working as Senior Stenographers in the Technical Teachers’ Training Institute (hereinafter referred to as ‘the TTTI’), which is an autonomous body set up by the Union Government on the recommendations of All India Council for Technical