Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC-LKO:12570 Court No. - 6 Case :- WRIT - A No. - 6888 of 2024 Petitioner :- Shobhit Srivastava And 4 Others Respondent :- State Of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Deptt. Of Law Lko. And 4 Others Counsel for Petitioner :- Vishnu Kumar Srivastava,Amol Kumar Srivastava,Siddharth Tripathi Counsel for Respondent :- C.S.C.,Gaurav Mehrotra,Vijay Dixit Hon'ble Alok Mathur,J. 1.Short counter affidavit filed on behalf of the State today in Court is taken on record. 2. Heard Shri Amol Kumar, learned counsel for petitioners, learned Standing Counsel for the State and perused the material available on record. 3. All the petitioners in the present writ petition are the Contractual ICT Post (IT Supporting Staff), who are working in different District Judiciary of State of Uttar Pradesh since 2019 on a fixed salary of Rs.50,000/- per month. Considering the fact that they are serving for a long length of time on a fixed salary, numerous representations were received by the High Court with the prayer to increase their salary and High Court after duly considering the grievance of the petitioners also requested the State Government to initiate necessary steps for revising/enhancing the applicable salary to the contractual Technical Manpower (ICT Staff) posted at various District Courts. Despite the High Court having written to the State Government on 28.09.2022, no decision has been taken by the State Government. 4. After arguing the matter at some length, learned counsel for petitioner submits that the grievance of the petitioner shall be substantially redressed in case respondent no. 1 - Principal Secretary, Department of Law, Legal Remembrancer, Civil Secretariat Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh to consider and decide the grievance of the petitioners along with request made by the High Court as forwarded by the Registrar General in this regard as contained in Annexure No. 6 to the writ petition expeditiously. 5. Learned Standing Counsel for the State does not oppose the prayer made by the petitioners and submits that the matter is still under process of the State Government and shall be decided shortly. 6. In light of the above, this petition is disposed of with a direction to the respondent no. 1 - Principal Secretary, Department of Law, Legal Remembrancer, Civil Secretariat Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh to consider and decide the representation of the petitioners as contained in Annexure No. 6 to the writ petition along with the request of the High Court as forwarded by the Registrar General on 28.09.2022 expeditiously say within a period of six weeks from the date a certified copy of this order is produced before him. 7. With the aforesaid observations/directions, this petition is disposed of. . (Alok Mathur, J.) Order Date :- 3.3.2025 Virendra Digitally signed by :- VIRENDRA KUMAR GUPTA High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench