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12. A gist of the submission is that nowhere in the pension Rules, 20 years of qualifying service has been prescribed and therefore, the requirement of 20 years is not in accordance with law. However, vide the Office Memorandum dated 06.09.2003, the Government has introduced requirement of 20 years of continuous service as a pre-requisite for being entitlement for pension. It is also brought to the notice of the Court that vide Office Memorandum dated 20.05.2009, it has been directed that 6 years of service rendered prior to regularization would be deducted from the total length of service while calculating 20 years of continuous service to be entitled for pension. The grievance of the petitioners are that though the petitioners' total length of service are more than 20 years, it is because of the deduction of 6 years that they failed to meet the bench mark of 20 years and such deduction is absolutely arbitrary and illegal. It is further submitted by learned Page No.# 14/22 counsel for the petitioners that in the actual calculation so for arising at the figure of 6 years, the actual figure is 5.91 years, which have been rounded up to 6 years, as the same has caused prejudice to the petitioners who belong to the economical lower strata of the society. Though, the learned counsel for the parties admit that normally while rounding up, anything about 0.5 is regardless counting, in the instant case, since such rounding up is considered, the pensionery benefit of the petitioners, who have retired as Muster Roll Workers, a higher figure of 6 years should not have been taken.