ASIM DAS Vs. STATE OF WEST BENGAL

JUDGEMENT

(1.) This application is directed against an order dated 8.5.1998 passed by the West Bengal Administrative Tribunal in O.A. 367 of 1996, whereby and where under the application filed by the petitioner herein was dismissed.

(2.) The petitioners case was that they were working as Bengali Translators. They were originally appointed in the scale of pay of Rs. 375.00 650.00 which in terms of recommendation of ROPA Rules, 1981 has been revised to Rs. 425 - 1050.00 with an initial start of Rs. 455.00. Such higher initial start however, had not been granted in respect of Sub-Divisional Information and Cultural Officers who were getting the scale of Rs. 425.00 - 1050.00 only.

(3.) Before the learned Tribunal, the petitioners prayed reliefs, inter alia, for revision of their scale of pay. It was held -