In Brief
Four consolidated writ petitions involved teachers and non-teaching staff at private schools and technical institutions in Maharashtra seeking payment of revised salaries under the 5th and 6th Pay Commissions. The central legal dispute concerned whether such pay revisions could be implemented via Government Resolutions without amending Schedule C of the MEPS Rules. A Division Bench found conflicting judicial views on whether MEPS Act provisions apply to technical institutions and whether statutory amendment procedures must be followed. Rather than deciding the underlying relief, the Court referred four key legal questions to a larger bench to resolve the conflict and provide authoritative guidance on the proper procedure for implementing pay revisions in private educational institutions.
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