Content Provider | Supreme Court of India |
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e-ISSN | 30484839 |
Language | English |
Access Restriction | NDLI |
Subject Keyword | Service Law: Karnataka State Civil Service |
Content Type | Text |
Resource Type | Law Judgement |
Jurisdiction | India |
Case Type | Appeal |
Court | Supreme Court of India |
Disposal Nature | Appeal Allowed |
Headnote | Service Law: Karnataka State Civil Service (Classification of Scale of pay of non-graduate Junior Engineers of the Public Works Department) Act 1975 : Graduate Engineers and Diploma Engineers-Appointed as Junior Engineers and Supervisors respectively-Later merged into one cadre of Junior Engineers-Again bifurcated into Junior Engineers Divisions I & II with effect from 9.1.1974-Diploma Engineers initially appointed as supervisors later acquiring engineering Degree prior to 9.1.1974-Entitlement to become Junior Engineer and the scale of pay attached thereto-Held, entitled to from 9.1.1974 and not earlier-Directions given to treat them as such and to give all consequential benefits.The appellants were initially diploma holders in Engineering and were recruited as Supervisors in the years 1960 and 1961 in the State Public Works Department. Later on, appellant nos. 1 and 2 acquired Engineering degrees in 1967 and 1970 respectively. The relevant recruitment rules at the time of their recruitment, stipulated that only degree holders were entitled to be appointed as Junior Engineers while diploma holders could be appointed as supervisors. In 1969, this position was changed and both the cadres of Junior Engineers and Supervisors were merged into one cadre of Junior Engineers. In 1971, the State Government extended identical pay scales to both graduate and diploma bolder Junior Engineers, with retrospective effect from 1.1.1957.In 1974, the State Government bifurcated the State service into two cadres namely Junior Engineer (Division I) & Junior Engineer (Division II), comprising of degree holders and diploma holders respectively.The Karnataka State Civil Service (Classification of Scale of Pay of non-graduate Junior Engineers of the Public Works Department) Act 1975 was enacted providing for classification and scale of pay admissible non-graduate Junior Engineers of State PWD. These Scales were also given retrospective effect from 1.11.1956.This bifurcation of cadres was challenged before the High Court, during the pendency of which the above said Act came into force. The High Court held that bifurcation of the combined cadre of Junior Engineers which was holding the field from 1969 to 1974 could be operative from 9.1.1974 for the purpose of separate pay scales of graduate and non-graduate junior Engineers. However, the High Court invalidated the retrospectivity given prior to 9.1.1974. Thus, the High Court restrained the respondents from recovering any part of the salary received by non-graduate Junior Engineers for any period prior to 9.1.974 and also directed the State Government to pay the salary which accrued to them upto 9.1.1974 which had not been paid.Therefore, the appellants approached the High Court by way of Writ Petitions for treating them as Junior Engineers (Division I) in the light of the existing qualification of graduation. The writ petitions were transferred to the Tribunal which was established in the meantime. The Tribunal dismissed the same. Hence these appeals. |
Judge | Hon'ble Mr. Justice S.B. Majmudar |
Neutral Citation | 1995 INSC 119 |
Petitioner | K. Ravindranath Pai And Anr. |
Respondent | State Of Karnataka And Anr. |
SCR | [1995] 2 S.C.R. 121 |
Judgement Date | 1995-02-20 |
Case Number | 7629-30 |
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