promotion, by virtue of putting in 10/13 years of service, they were granted yet another similar fixation. True, in the meanwhile, they had come to occupy a different pay scale. The unified scale had been granted so as to annul the mischief of a junior getting a higher pay than the senior. But basically an officer would have been entitled to only one fixation at the time of getting a grade promotion (and this too because of the benevolence of the Government, since it had been specifically provided that R.23A fixation will be admissible for grade promotion). The pay made admissible to the senior officers was taking note of R.28A fixation. But, ultimately it resulted in a position that both set of officers (Higher Grade) in the Public Works Department and Agricultural Department came to occupy a scale of Rs.1450-2325, as if it was only a change in the scale of pay admissible to them. But the seniors, who were already beneficiaries of a R.28A fixation, actually might have been entitled to a fixation as envisaged by R.30 of Part I K.S.R. only, which provided that: “The holder of a post, the pay of which is changed, shall be treated as if he were transferred to a new post on the new pay......”
