P.KAMATCHI Vs. STATE OF TAMIL NADU

JUDGEMENT

(1.) The issue involved in the present case relates to fixation of pay of one category, which is alleged to be on par and inter-transferable with the other category, in the pre-revised scale of pay granted to the other category, more especially during the intervening period between the V and the VI Pay Commissions.

(2.) The petitioners in the present petitions are presently Statistical Inspectors, who were appointed as Assistant Statistical Inspectors and, thereafter, promoted to the post of Statistical Inspectors and working in the Economics and Statistics Department. It is their case that prior to the implementation of the recommendations of the V Pay Commission, the petitioners were getting the scale of Rs.1600-2660 and that on the implementation of the recommendations of the V Pay Commission, the petitioners, in the post of Statistical Inspectors, were getting the pay of Rs.5300- 9000. Since the said pay was not on par with that of the Superintendents, with whom the petitioners were drawing equivalent pay all along, in view of the disparity in the pay scale, on the basis of the recommendation of the One Man Commission, the pay of the petitioners in the post of Statistical Inspector was revised to Rs.5500-9000 on par with that of the Superintendent. It is the further case of the petitioners that their pay have always been on par with that of their equivalent post of Superintendents.

(3.) With the implementation of the recommendations of the VI Pay Commission by the Central Government, Official Committee was constituted by the Government of Tamil Nadu to give necessary recommendations for revision of scales of pay and allowances of the employees of the State Government and pursuant to the recommendation of the Official Committee, while the pay scale of the Superintendents were fixed at Rs.9300-34800 + Grade Pay of 4800, however, the post of Statistical Inspector was initially provided with scale of pay of Rs.9300-34800 + Grade Pay of 4400. Consequent upon the constitution of the One Man Commission to look into the anomalies that arose on the implementation of the recommendations of the Official Committee, the scale of pay of the Assistant Inspector/Statistical Inspector/Stamping Inspector were revised to Rs.9300-34800 + Grade Pay of 4800 by enhancing the Grade Pay by Rs.400/-, on par with the scale of Superintendents.