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respondents in the Writ Petition. He submitted that the allegation of discrimination is unfounded, for the reasons already explained by the said respondent in its counter affidavit and therefore, prayed for dismissing the appeal.

10. Performance Linked Bonus, Performance Linked Incentive etc., are the new schemes evolved by the managements in the industrial sector to extract maximum work and also to correspondingly reward the employees and officers concerned. Certain units or branches of an industry will be vital for the well being of the industrial unit and therefore, workmen or officers engaged in such units/branches are rewarded better for increased productivity. Certain groups of workmen, though they are not essential for the increase in production, like Sweepers, Gardeners etc., are also given incentive along with others but at a lower rate. This is the usual general practice available in all modern industries. Essentially, it is a managerial function to decide as to which of the employees or sections should be encouraged to achieve more production, by providing an incentive scheme. In certain other branches also, owing to