BHAIRU RATAN Vs. RAJASTHAN KRISHI VISHVA VIDHYALAYA

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THESE appeals are founded on common ground about computation of services rendered by the appellants' in all these cases under the Rajasthan Agricultural University on temporary basis from the date of entering into service against regular posts, on which posts they continued to serve until they were appointed substantively by holding a screening test after the decision of this Court in Dilip Bhatnagar & 6 Ors. vs. Rajasthan Agriculture University, Bikaner, 1994 (3) WLC 42.

(2.) THE Government of Rajasthan had issued the order dated 25. 1. 92 in respect of the Rajasthan State Employees in class IV and Ministerial and Subordinate services providing the amelioration of service conditions of stagnated employees who have not received any promotion for a span of 9 years in each of 9, 18 and 27 years respectively for the purpose of granting them first, second or third selection scale. In the said order, selection pay scale has been envisioned to be granted without giving actual promotion to the next higher post.

(3.) PURSUANT to this direction, the petitioner appellants were given the benefit of selection scale by computing their period of service w. e. f. 11. 7. 1990. However, the Government vide its letter dated 8. 08. 2002 while matter was pending consideration before Full Bench raised objection to inclusion of period of service rendered on ad hoc/temporary basis in 9, 18 and 27 years. In furtherance of this order, the University vide its order dated 26/30. 05. 2003 issued a notification by referring to the Government letter dated 8. 08. 2002 that in pursuance of the aforesaid, the Board of Management resolved that University will follow the guidelines issued by the Government of Rajasthan for not computing the ad hoc appointment period and granting selection scale by counting the period of ad hoc appointment. In future also, the ad hoc period would be deemed to be not counted while granting selection scale. In this notification, the University reiterated the stand taken on 8. 8. 2002 vide letter No. F 3 (2) Agri/gr. 2/02.