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Satyen Vaidya, Judge The instant petition has been filed for the following substantive relief:

"a) That the respondents may kindly be directed to pay the applicant on the analogy of equal pay for equal work, the pay scale of Workshop Instructor i.e. pay band of Rs.10300-34800 + Rs.3600/- Grade Pay as the applicant is discharging the function of Workshop Instructor from the day of his appointment alongwith the designation with all the consequential benefits."

Mandi on 12.01.2004 on initial of the pay scale with 50% D.A. i.e. Rs.3330/- + 50% D.A.

3. The services of the petitioner were regularized on 16.08.2012 in the pay scale of Rs.5910 - 20200/- + 2400 GP.

4. The instant petition has been filed with the grievance that right from the day when petitioner was appointed as MMD, he has been made to discharge the duties of Workshop Instructor. The petitioner has alleged that the educational qualification prescribed for the post of MMD and Workshop Instructor was identical. The petitioner possessed the requisite qualification and, on such premise, the petitioner is seeking direction to pay him the pay scale of Workshop Instructor i.e. Rs.10300 -

34800 + Rs3600/- G.P. The Workshop Instructor is the overall Incharge of the respective shops viz., Workshop Instructor Turning, Machining, Welding, Carpentry, Fitting and Foundry for imparting training viz., plan, deliver and evaluate shop instructions and guide the diploma students in the performance of practical tasks and skill exercise and also to evaluate their performance in the Workshop. In 5 2025:HHC:27088 addition, there is one post of Foreman Instructor and above him, there is one overall Incharge of the Workshops in a Polytechnic i.e. Workshop Superintendent, who also .

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27. Even if the prescribed qualifications for the post of MMD and Workshop Instructor are considered to be same, that cannot be a ground to assume that the .

petitioner is entitled to parity with the scale of Workshop Instructor.

28. More importantly, it cannot be ignored that the petitioner had joined as MMD on contract basis with the knowledge that the post of Workshop Instructor was different than the post of MMD and attracted higher pay scale. He once made the representation in the year 2007 and thereafter continued to work in Govt. Polytechnic, Sundernagar without any further objections. He belatedly filed the instant petition in the year 2017 that too after having accepted the regularization on the post of MMD, in its own scale, again without any reservation in the year 2012.