RAM NAUMI SINGH Vs. UNION OF INDIA

JUDGEMENT

(1.) PETITIONER has challenged the Award passed by the Presiding Officer, Central Government Industrial Tribunal No. 1 Dhanbad in 11 of 1991, whereby he has answered the reference against the petitioner -workman.

(2.) THE Central Government in the Ministry of Labour in exercise of power conferred under Clause (d) of Sub -section (1) and Sub -section (2 -A) of Section 10 of the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947, referred the following dispute for adjudication to the Tribunal.

(3.) THE case of the management is that the concerned workman after his appointment on 5.8.1957 had declared his date of birth as 1.7.1932 which was entered in Form B register of the colliery as well as in the service card maintained by the management and the workman also signed the service card and Form B register in token of his aforesaid declaration. It is contended that in 1977 the management issued circular enabling the workman to represent about the date of birth, but no such representation was filed by the concerned workman. Again similar circular was issued in the year 1980 to which the workman filed his representation. One age correction committee comprising of the representatives of the management and the recognized Union was constituted to consider those applications. The age correction committee after considering the case of the petitioner did not recommend for correction of the age and the decision was intimated to the workman.