reference to the basic wages alone.• The scheme framed in the Niemla Textile Finishing Mills, Chheharta, is on the eame lines as the scheme under the New India Embroidery Mills and the same comment, therefore, falls to be made about it. The gratuity scheme in the Technological Institute of Textiles, Bhiwani, h!\s adopted the basis of 1/2 month's basic wages for each completed year of service, but t,here is no ceiling placed by the scheme. Ou the other haud, the gratuity scheme in the Shambhu Nath & Sons Ltd,, Amritsar, adopts one month's basic wages for each completed year of service and so does the scheme in the India Woollen Textile Mills, Chheharta, and the India Calico Printing Mills. The Jagatjit Cotton Textile Mills ·Ltd,, l'hagwara, has 1/2 month's basic wa;,es; the Punjab Distilling Industries Ltd, provides for one month's basic wages; so does the. New Egerton Woollen Mill, DhariwaL The Jawala Flour Mills Amritsar, provides for th<l rate of J /2 month's basic wages iu case of workmen with five years of service and in case of workmen with service above five years at the rate of one month's basic wages. It would thus !Je seen th>Lt ! he claim made by the appellant that the pattern of gratuity schemes in the Punjab invariably· shows the adoption of the rate of 15 days' basic wages for. each completed year of service, is not supported by the several awards produced by the parties before us, and so, it cannot be said that the present award has departed from any fixed uniform pattern in the matter.
