The candidate mentioned that the advantages of the 2nd monetary upgradation with a grade pay of Rs 4,800 and 3rd monetary upgradation with a grade pay of Rs 5,400 were given to qualified staff members, however later on the upgradation was withdrawn.
The Chandigarh bench of the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT), in an interim relief, has actually directed authorities of the Railway Coach Factory (RCF), Kapurthala to keep status quo concerning the income of its engineers, in a relief to a a great deal of staff members.
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The petition in this regard was submitted prior to the tribunal by 37 engineers and comparable authorities led by senior engineer Brij Mohan in which the petitioners asked for to quash a letter from the Railway Board dated April 22, 2021.
The candidate mentioned that the advantages of the 2nd monetary upgradation with a grade pay of Rs 4,800 and 3rd monetary upgradation with a grade pay of Rs 5,400 were given to qualified staff members by the Railways Modified Assured Career Progression Scheme (MACP) policy in the past. But then the Railway Board provided a letter in April 2021 based on which the upgradation was withdrawn.
The letter was provided by the Railway Board over an explanation looked for by the Northern Railway Accounts Department, Baroda House, New Delhi, which remained in large contradiction of its own earlier basic policy of the MACP Scheme outdated 10-06-2009, said petitioners.
The impacted staff members took this matter up with the Railway Board authorities through appropriate channels numerous times, however to no obtain and after that they submitted a petition.
The counsel for the petitioners – designated Senior Advocate Sanjeev Manrai and SP Garg – apprised the Chandigarh Bench that the order dated April 22, 2021 is consistently appropriate throughout the Indian Railways, however the RCF administration is the just one which has actually executed it, that too in a “most discriminate manner” upon engineers and their equivalents alone without impacting the ministerial/clerical and accounts cadre staff promoted in the exact same grade pay in between January 1, 2006 and August 29, 2008. This is extremely “discriminatory, arbitrary, whimsical and perverse”, it said.
“The court was apprised that seven similarly situated employees i.e. Engineers & their equivalents had already retired from RCF with huge reduced basic pay causing monetary loss of pensionary benefits. However, no recovery of arrears has been done given the judgment rendered by the Supreme Court in SLP case of Rafiq Masih vs the State of Punjab,” said counsels.
The department bench of Ramesh Singh Thakur and Rashmi Saxena Sahni, having actually been totally encouraged with the arguments advanced by the candidates, remained the withdrawal of monetary upgradation on their retirements by directing the participants to keep status quo – that is, there will be no decrease in the basic pay qua income of the candidates, said the counsel.
The bench said the participants might submit a brief reply qua interim by the next date.
Mohan said the order of the Chandigarh bench will benefit countless staff members besides those who got retired without getting their due advantages in the wake of the letter.
First released on: 21-04-2023 at 14:56 IST
