Pay anomaly rectification sustained after Government accepted the disparity and decided to revise the affected cadre's pay scale.

A pay anomaly in the revised scale for Head Masters and related junior basic education cadres was recognised by the Government, which later decided on the Pay Committee's recommendation to rectify the disparity for the Deputy Inspector of Schools/Deputy Basic Education Officer cadre. In light of that binding administrative decision, the Court found no further live dispute requiring adjudication and declined to interfere with the High Court's direction. The respondents' claim to the revised pay scale was thus sustained, and the civil appeals were dismissed.

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Issues: Whether the respondents were entitled to the revised pay scale of Rs. 7500-12000 and whether the challenge to the High Court's direction survived after the Government had taken a decision to rectify the pay anomaly.

Analysis: The respondents' claim arose from an anomaly in pay fixation after revision of the pay scales of Head Masters and other Junior High School teachers, leaving the respondents in a lower scale despite comparable duties and cadre position. The Court noted that the Government itself had, by subsequent proceedings, recognised the discrepancy and taken a decision to rectify the pay scales of the Deputy Inspector of Schools/Deputy Basic Education Officer cadre on the recommendations of the Pay Committee. In view of that decision, no further adjudication was required.

Conclusion: The direction of the High Court did not warrant interference, and the civil appeals were dismissed.

Final Conclusion: The respondents' entitlement to the revised pay scale stood sustained, and the dispute was treated as no longer requiring further judicial determination.

Ratio Decidendi: Where the competent Government has acknowledged a pay anomaly and taken a binding administrative decision to rectify it, a challenge to a corresponding judicial direction may be dismissed as no further cause survives for adjudication.

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