“…There exists an extensive literature on this theme, but keeping in view the requirements of this presentation, we merely refer to ( [4], [6], [9], [10], [11], [13], [14], [18], [25], [26], [38], [39], [40]). In recent years, a multitude of fixed point theorems have been proved in ordered metric spaces wherein the involved contraction conditions are merely assumed to hold on elements which are comparable in the underlying partial ordering.…”