- (1.) HEARD Mr. Dhananjay Dubey, learned counsel for the Petitioner and Mr. Rupesh Kumar, J.C. to S.C. - I and with their consent, this case is being disposed off at this stage.
(2.) THE Petitioner claims the scale of Rs. 7,500 -12,000/ - with effect from the date when the Blind School at Ranchi was upgraded into a full fledged middle school vide letter dated 20.12.1999 which was subsequently followed up by yet another letter dated 4.1.2000. In spite of the aforesaid, the Petitioner has not received any positive response although he had specifically mentioned about the aforementioned letters in his representations. The copy of the letter dated 20.12.1999 was produced in Court and the same shall be kept in the records of this case. The Petitioner also claims parity in scale i.e. Rs. 6,500 -10,500/ - at par with that of the Headmaster of the Deaf and Dumb School at Patna/Deoghar with effect from 1.1.1996 in terms of the resolution dated 8.2.1999 which was published in the Bihar Gazette Extraordinary on 13.2.1999 vide Annexure -A appended to the Counter Affidavit which indicates that revised scales of pay shall come into effect from 1 .1.1996 but the actual payment would be with effect from 1.4.1997. What is interesting to note is that prior to this notification, the pay scales of a Headmaster of the Blind School at Ranchi and of the Headmaster of the Deaf and Dumb School at Patna/ Darbhanga were Absolutely identical, i.e. Rs. 1,800 -3,330/ - but, with the issuance of the said Notification, the same scale in relation to Ranchi was fixed at a lower grade of Rs. 5,500 -9,000/ - while the Patna/ Darbhanga scale of the Headmaster was fixed at a higher grade of Rs. 6,500 -10,500/ -.
(3.) AT running page -73, serial number 30 shows that the revised scale of a Head Master of the "Deaf -and -Dumb" Middle School at Patna and Darbhanga was fixed at Rs. 6,500 -10,500/ -. According to Mr. Rupesh Kumar however, the scale to which the Petitioner is entitled is serial number 13 which is meant for the Head Master of the "Blind" School at Ranchi. Although the earlier corresponding scale is the same i.e. Rs. 1,800 -3,330/ -, yet the revised scale has been shown to be Rs. 5,500 -9,000/and not Rs. 6,500 -10,500/ -.;