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The instant bunch of writ petitions involves common questions of facts and law and is thus being decided together by this single order.

The petitioners herein are all employees of Jalore Central Cooperative Bank. They were working on the post of Managers (Vyavasthapaks) in various Primary Agriculture Credit Society (for short, 'PACS'). By giving them benefit of channel of promotion available under the Rajasthan Cooperative Societies Rules, 2003 (for short 'the Rules of 2003'), all the petitioners were promoted to the posts of Loan Supervisors in Jalore Central Cooperative Bank and their respective pay scales were altered and fixed from that applicable to CIVIL WRIT (CW) No. 6996 of 2014 a/w 7 other connected matters PACS managers to the one admissible to Loan Supervisors. As PACS managers, the petitioners were drawing salary of Rs.4295/- per month. However, after their promotion as Loan Supervisors, their pay scales came to be fixed at Rs.3230/- per month only, which is lesser than the payscale drawn by them on the lower post upon which, the petitioners have approached this Court with a prayer for removing the apparent pay anomaly. In order to demonstrate the apparent reduction in the pay scale, the petitioners have placed on record copy of order dated 17.10.2008 whereby, they were promoted as Loan Supervisors. It is asserted in the writ petitions that no statutory Rules are operating so as to govern the pay scales of the employees upon promotion from PACS Manager to Loan Supervisors in the Central Cooperative Bank. Thus, they claim benefit of Rule 26A of the Rajasthan Service Rules, 1951 (for short, 'the RSR Rules') which provides that the pay in the higher post shall be fixed so as to be not lower than the pay drawn in the lower post. The petitioners have made a prayer for issuance of a direction to the respondents to give them the benefit of enhancement/stepping up of pay as per Rule 26A of CIVIL WRIT (CW) No. 6996 of 2014 a/w 7 other connected matters the Rajasthan Service Rules and to place them at a pay scale one stage higher than what they were drawing as PACS managers with consequential benefits.