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9. Sri P.R. Prasad, learned Counsel for the petitioner, would submit that Rule 7(4) of the Rules, notified in G.O. Ms. No. 29 dated 05-02-1987, required the 3rd respondent to pay salaries to its staff on par with government pay scales. Learned Counsel would submit that, while the maximum number of working hours for a part-time lecturer was between 9 to 12 hours each week, the petitioner was initially made to work 36 hours each week as the 3rd respondent college, during the period 1987 to 1992, was working in two shifts, and for 28 hours per week when the single shift system from 10.00 a.m. to 5.30 p.m, was introduced in the 3rd respondent college in the year 1992. Learned Counsel would submit that these specific averments, in the affidavit filed in support of the writ petition, have not been denied and that, despite the heavy work load of 28 hours per week, the petitioner was running the entire department of Sanskrit all by himself and that no second lecturer was appointed. According to the learned Counsel, whatever may be the nomenclature, the fact remained that the petitioner was rendering services as a regular lecturer putting in more than 28 hours work per week and, since the petitioner possessed the qualifications prescribed for a regular lecturer, he was entitled for payment of salary and allowances on par with regular lecturers. Learned Counsel would refer to G.O.Ms. No. 127 dated 30-08-2000, wherein the 1996 revised pay scales were extended to lecturers who were earlier drawing the state scales of pay. Annexure to the said G.O., details the pay which a lecturer appointed, on or after 01-07- 1998, is entitled to. Learned Counsel would refer to G.O.Ms. No. 166, dated 08- 06-1994, whereunder part-time lecturers working in government degree colleges were entitled for payment of salary and allowances, calculated on the basis of the minimum scale of pay, and for regularization of their services. Learned Counsel would submit that the minimum scale of pay was extended, with effect from the beginning of the academic year 1992-93, to such of those part-time lecturers who had been working in regular vacancies or where the work justified appointment of a regular lecturer for more than three years by 30-04-1991 or were teaching over 16 periods per week and that the government had decided that, in case of such lecturers, salary calculated at the minimum scale of pay i.e., the revised 1993 state scales of pay of Rs. 3640-7580 shall be paid instead of on an hourly basis from the commencement of the academic year 1992-93.