NDLI: Rajasthan Agricultural University, Bikaner, Through Its Registrar Vs. Dr. Zabar Singh Solanki and Ors.

Content Provider	Supreme Court of India
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Language	English
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Subject Keyword	Appointment on ad-hoc basis Entitlement to benefits under the Career Advancement Scheme Distinction between regular appointment and re-designation Service Law Regular appointment Assistant Professors Research Assistants Career Advancement Scheme Lecturers Fulfilment of conditions Re-designation
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Law Judgement
Jurisdiction	India
Act(s) Referred	Rajasthan Universities’ Teachers and Officers (selection for Appointment) Act, 1974 (18 of 1974) Udaipur University Act, 1962 (18 of 1962)
Case(s) Referred	Referred Case 0
Case Type	Special Leave Petition
Court	Supreme Court of India
Disposal Nature	Appeal Allowed
Headnote	Udaipur University Act, 1962 – Rajasthan Universities Teachers and Officers (Selection for Appointment) Act, 1974 – In the Civil Appeals arising from Special Leave Petitions (Civil) No. 22278/2011 and 22813/2011, the appellant has submitted that merely by re-designating Research Assistants as Lecturers and thereafter as Assistant Professors, they could not have been granted the benefit of CAS – This benefit was available only to Lecturers, who were directly appointed on the posts of Assistant Professors under 1974 Act and had completed eight years of service:Held: On an overall circumspection of the facts and circumstances, it is clear that upon re-designation of the Research Assistants as Lecturers/Assistant Professors, they got what was due to them in the form of the same pay-scale as was applicable to the directly-recruited Lecturers, but once it came to the CAS, the CAS specifically envisaged that benefit thereunder was restricted to persons completing 8 years of service after regular appointment – Only by reason that the respondents were receiving the same pay-scale as the direct recruits, would not entitle them to get benefit of CAS as it was subject to fulfilment of certain conditions, including completion of certain years of service viz. 8 years – There would be a segregation in the two cadres – Ipso facto, benefits accorded to one would not accrue to the other unless so specified in the relevant Scheme, as may be framed by the employer i.e., State Government/University – It is held that the writ petitioners/private respondents are not entitled to benefits under the CAS, as notified by the Government of India vide Letter dated 22.07.1988. [Paras 24, 25] Udaipur University Act, 1962 – Rajasthan Universities Teachers and Officers (Selection for Appointment) Act, 1974 – In the Civil Appeal arising from SLP (C) No.30963/2018, in this case, respondents, before their regular appointment as Assistant Professors in the University, served on an ad-hoc basis in other educational institutions and also in the University – These respondents preferred a writ petition before the High Court with a prayer to reckon their services rendered in such ad-hoc capacity while determining their eligibility for the grant of senior pay-scale under the CAS – The relief claimed was granted by the Single Judge and affirmed by the Division Bench of the High Court – Justified or not: Held: Notably, the State Government vide its Letter dated 20.09.1994, had specifically clarified that the period of ad-hoc service rendered by the respondents/Assistant Professors shall not be counted for giving benefit of senior pay-scale under the CAS – As elaborated, in the Civil Appeals arising from Special Leave Petitions (Civil) No.22278/2011 and 22813/2011 that the CAS is essentially a policy, and as such, the respondents cannot claim, nor would they have any vested right for claiming that the clauses therein be interpreted in a particular manner – Such an interpretative exercise would have to be left, in the domain of the appellant, subject to the State Government’s directives unless patently perverse or arbitrary – The High Court, hence, was not justified in counting of the ad-hoc service rendered by the respondents for reckoning the period of computation as required for applying the CAS. [Para 30] Service Law – Regular appointment and re-designation – Distinction: Held: The very usage of the term/phrase “regular appointment” has to be given its proper interpretation and cannot be rendered redundant or superfluous – Here, there is a distinction between re-designation and regular appointment – Re-designation cannot be said to be a regular appointment as it is only that one post/ category/cadre which is given equivalence with another existing post/category/cadre, but the basic distinction would still lie that the re-designated post/category/cadre would always be considered to be an equivalent post of Lecturer/Assistant Professor, whereas the other/mainline cadre would always be considered to comprise only of direct recruits. [Para 21]
Judge	Hon'ble Mr. Justice Ahsanuddin Amanullah
Neutral Citation	2024 INSC 581
Petitioner	Rajasthan Agricultural University, Bikaner, Through Its Registrar
Respondent	Dr. Zabar Singh Solanki And Ors.
SCR	[2024] 8 S.C.R. 175
Judgement Date	2024-08-06
Case Number	22278

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