“i. for issuance of an appropriate writ/writs, order/s direction/s preferably in the nature of mandamus, commanding the respondents to grant notional benefits to the petitioners, commensurate with scale of pay like the other health workers like the ANMs, so that parity be maintained, under the reason that petitioners were acquiring even the better qualification, skill & training, than the AMNs, and their scale of pay was also same and similar in Rs. 220315/- upto adoption of the 4th Pay Revision commission report, but afterwards the disparity developed without any rhyme and reason and the scale of Basic Health Workers (herein after referred to as “BHW”) made lesser than the ANMs, although basic qualification of ANMs was simple none matric/ matric pass, whereas minimum qualification of the BHWs was minimum second division Matric with science, even then they were kept under the scale of Rs. 535-765/- only, whereas ANMs were kept under scale of Rs. 580-860/-, resultantly this disparity remained till the retirement of the petitioner, due which they have been paid less post retiral benefits and less pension was also fixed, even while tenure there was no promotion granted to the petitioner, due to which double loss is caused to them, which is against the equal remuneration act 1976 as well in violation of Art. 14, 16(1) and Clause (d) of Article 39 of the constitution of India , although any type of discrimination among same class of employees is unsustainable in law particularly, when the mode of employment, nature of job, quality of job is similar,
