Neelam Rani Case: Stepped up letter by finance department

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CWP No. 11254 of 2010 -

IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH 

CWP No. 11254 of 2010 (O&M) 

Date of Decision: 15.05.2013 

Neelam Rani d/o Raj Roop ...Petitioner 

Versus The State of Haryana and others .Respondents 

CORAM:HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE K.KANNAN 

Present: Mr. Jagbir Malik, Advocate for the petitioner. 

Mr. Ashish Gupta, AAG Haryana for respondents No.1 to 5. 

K.KANNAN, J. (ORAL) 

1. The petitioner's grievance in the writ petition is that she is being paid less than her juniors in State School Services. The petitioner's claim is fully vindicated by what is tabulated in the written statement at para 4 in the preliminary objections. It is clear from the tabulation that there had been a anomaly in pay structure caused in the scales of pay drawn as per the 6 th pay Commission. The petitioner was drawing salary which was less than her juniors in the JBT teachers cadre. The tabulation shows from 1.7.2009 up to 3.6.2012 her salary was less than her juniors namely Vipin Bajaj, Anu Sardana and Jeena Devi. The written statement makes an admission that the additional pay which the juniors were receiving shall be treated as personal to them and that efforts will be taken for adjusting the additional amount subsequent to 2015. 

2. It could be no consolation for petitioner to be informed that the Government has proposed to take same action for adjusting all the additional pay which were being given to the 

(For Subsequent orders see LPA-849-2014, COCP-657-2014, -- and 1 more. )

juniors some time in future. The petitioner is entitled to be stepped up in pay, an amount which the juniors were drawing so that her salary does not fall short of the salary which is earned by her juniors. The amount to be paid in excess over what is being received by the petitioner shall be calculated from 1.7.2009 to 30.6.2013. The exercise shall be undertaken within a period of 8 weeks from the date of receipt of copy of this order and amount shall be paid to the petitioner with interest of 6%. 

3. The writ petition is allowed. 

(K.KANNAN) JUDGE 

15.05.2013 aarti 

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