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2025:HHC:45842

2. The appellant (hereinafter referred to as the "writ petitioner") had filed the writ petition seeking directions to the .

respondents to pay him the pay-scale of Workshop Instructor on the analogy of 'equal pay for equal work' since he was discharging the function of Workshop Instructor from the day of his appointment along with the designation with all of consequential benefits.

4. The claim put forth by the petitioner in the writ petition was not accepted by the respondents-State.

Consequently, the petitioner filed the writ petition on the ground that since he is discharging the duties of Workshop Instructor and the work entrusted to him was that of a 2025:HHC:45842 Workshop Instructor i.e. teaching, theoretical and practical, he may be granted the pay of Workshop Instructor, in the pay .

band of Rs.10300-34800 + Rs.3600/- Grade Pay.

5. The respondents-State filed reply to the writ petition and submitted that anomaly which is claimed against the post is having different nomenclature, duties and of responsibilities. It was further submitted that simply possessing the essential qualifications required for the post is rt not a ground for claiming parity of the pay-scale. The staff structure in the Workshops in the Polytechnics of the State is that there were posts of the Workshop Instructors in the pay band of Rs.10300-34800 + Rs.3600/- Grade Pay who is the overall incharge of the respective Shops viz. Workshop Instructor, Turning, Machining, Wielding, 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 exercises and evaluate their performance in the Workshop. The MMD has been discharging the duties and responsibilities such as providing assistance to faculty in conduct of practicals in Auto Shops Practices (Shop in Automobile Engineering 2025:HHC:45842 Department) as a supporting staff of the faculty i.e. Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/HOD's and Driving Practice to the .

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10. The learned senior counsel appearing on behalf of the petitioner has vehemently argued that the post of Workshop Instructor was available and the same was not filled up and since the writ petitioner has been teaching, he was of discharging the duties of Workshop Instructor and thus entitled to the pay-scale of the Workshop Instructor. The learned rt senior counsel further argued that since the learned Single Judge has erred while dismissing the writ petition, the appeal may kindly be allowed and the relief claimed in the writ petition be granted to the writ petitioner.