SHAIL BALA Vs. UNION OF INDIA

JUDGEMENT

(1.) RAMESH Chand Sharma-petitioner (for short `the employee') was selected for the post of Section Officer in Beas Project and appointed accordingly in the pay scale of Rs. 200-10-280-15-430-20-450 w. e. f. 2nd November, 1973. With effect from 1st January, 1978, the employee got his pay scale revised to Rs. 700-1200 P. M. He claims to have been declared quasi-permanent w. e. f. 3rd February, 1977 by the order of the Superintending Engineer (Administration and Account Circle) Beas Project Unit-I, Sundernagar (Himachal Pradesh) dated 20th November, 1980.

(2.) UPON winding up of the Beas project in the year 1984 or so, the employee was declared surplus. Consequently, vide order dated 21st December, 1984, the employee was placed in Central (Surplus staff) Cell in the same scale of pay (700-1200) as was drawn by the petitioner in the Beas Project.

(3.) THE employee founded his case on the basis of the judgment of the Central Administrative Tribunal given by the Bangalore Bench on 31st March, 1995 in group of Original Applications being OA No. 1337 and 1364 to 1375 whereby the following relief was granted to the concerned employees: &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp" 18. For the reasons discussed above we deem it proper to allow the application and grant the relief sought. Consequently Annex-A/10 order dt. 8. 4. 94 issued by R/2 is hereby quashed. We further direct the respondent to grant higher pay scale as that paid to Jes in CPWD in the scale of Rs. 1640-2900 to the applicant in Grd-II Supdt. who as and when complete 5 years of service in the grade wef. 1. 1. 86 and who as and when complete 15 years of service in that grade the scale of Rs. 2000-3500 with effect from 1. 1. 91 on the same line contained in the communication of MUD dated 21. 3. 1991 addressed to GD (Work) CPWD as in Annexure-A/2. THE direction should be complied with within a period of three months from the date of receipt of copy of this order. No cost. "