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THE DHARMAPURI DIST.CO-OPERATIVE SUGARMILLS LIMITED PALACODE ENGINEER DEPARTMENT CHIEF ENGINEER (COVERED UNDER COMMON CADRE SYSTEM) | DEPUTY CHIEF ENGINEER (COVERED UNDER COMMON CADRE SYSTEM) | | ASSISTANT ENGINEER / ASSISTANT ENGINEER / ELECTRICAL MECHANICAL (COVERED UNDER COMMON (COVERED UNDER COMMON CADRE SYSTEM) CADRE SYSTEM) | | ELECTRICAL SUPERVISORS (SUPERVISORY 'C' GRADE) (COVERED UNDER COMMON CADRE SYSTEM) | | INSTRUMENTS SUPERVISOR DRAUGHTSMEN (SUPERVISORY 'C' GRADE) (SUPERVISORY 'C' GRADE) (NON COMMON NON COMMON CADRE CADRE SYSTEM)

i)Electrical Supervisor

ii)Mechanical Supervisor

iii)Manufacturing Supervisor

iv)Lab Chemist

v)Civil Supervisor

vi)Junior Engineer

vii)Instrument Supervisor

viii)Draughtsmen The pay scales were also fixed for Supervisory "C" grade by the Wage Board till 1989, wherein all the categories of employees falling under Supervisory "C" grade were given equal scale of pay, by maintaining pay parity.

5. The Government of Tamil Nadu introduced Common Cadre System under which public sector Co-operative Sugar Mills for the posts above the level of Supervisory "C" grade. The purpose of introduction of Common Grade System was for efficient administration and to have a mobile system in which personnel could be transferred from one sugar mill to another.

8. It is the case of petitioner, that the Commissioner of Sugars created pay disparity among the employees working in the same grade, i.e. Supervisory "C" Grade without any reasonable classification.

9. It is also submitted, that introduction of Common Grade System could not be the ground for discrimination, nor it provides any intelligible differentia to fix different scale of pays to posts, which were retained in Sugar Mill Cadre and those included in the Common Cadre.

10. It is submitted, that respondent no.2 was bound to maintain pay parity between employees falling under Supervisory "C" grade.

In this connection, it is informed that the Common Cadre System was introduced by the Government as per the G.O.Ms.No866, Industries Department dt: 25.7.1984 and as per the Commissioner of Sugar letter in Rc.no.23941/1984/C1, dt.16.10.1984 certain posts/categories were brought under Common Cadre System due to exigencies and administrative reasons and the Common Cadre System was further extended to cover certain other posts also as per the Commissioner of Sugar letter No.25185/C3/1989, dt:27.12.1989. It is also informed that not all the posts in Supervisory "C" Grade were brought under Common Cadre System, only certain posts of Supervisory "C" Grade were brought under Common Cadre System due to its exigencies and administrative reasons.