IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM
WP(C).No. 11958 of 2009(L)
1. DR.C. VISWANATHAN,
... Petitioner
2. DR.P.G. PRADEEP KUMAR,
Vs
1. THE UNION OF INDIA, REPRESENTED BY
... Respondent
2. UNIVERSITY GRANTS COMMISSION,
3. STATE OF KERALA, REPRESENTED BY THE
4. THE DIRECTOR OF COLLEGIATE EDUCATION,
5. THE MANAGER,
For Petitioner :SRI.ELVIN PETER P.J.
For Respondent :SRI.P.PARAMESWARAN NAIR,ASST.SOLICITOR
The Hon'ble MR. Justice P.N.RAVINDRAN
Dated :08/04/2009
O R D E R
P.N.RAVINDRAN, J.
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W.P.(C).Nos.11958, 12146 & 12174 of 2009
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Dated 8th April, 2009
JUDGMENT
Heard Sri.Elvin Peter P.J. and Sri.J.Omprakash, the learned
counsel appearing for the petitioners, Sri.P.Parameswaran Nair, the
learned Assistant Solicitor General of India appearing for the Union of
India, Sri.S.Krishnamoorthy, the learned Standing Counsel appearing for
the University Grants Commission and Sri.T.T.Muhamood, the learned
Government Pleader appearing for the State of Kerala.
2. The petitioners are Selection Grade Lecturers working in
various aided colleges in the State of Kerala. Their grievance is that
though they have been placed in the Selection Grade with effect from
various dates after 1.1.1996, their request for fixation of pay at
Rs.14,940/= in the scale of pay of Rs.12000-420-18300 has not so far
been granted. The learned counsel appearing on either side agree that a
Division Bench of this Court has by Ext.P8 judgment delivered on
21.1.2009 in W.A.No.1394 of 2008 and connected cases held that those
Lecturers who were placed in the Selection Grade after 1.1.1996 will be
entitled to draw salary at the stage of Rs.14,940/= in the scale of pay of
Rs.12000-420-18300 on completion of five years in the Selection Grade.
In view of Ext.P8 judgment, the petitioners submit that they are not
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pursuing the other reliefs prayed for in these writ petitions and that
they will be satisfied if a direction similar to the one issued by this
Court in Ext.P8 judgment is issued in these cases also.
In view of Ext.P8 judgment, I dispose of these writ
petitions with a direction that those among the petitioners who were
Lecturers as on 1.1.1996 and who were subsequently placed in the
Selection Grade after 1.1.1996 will be entitled to have their pay fixed
at Rs.14,940/= in the scale of pay of Rs.12000-420-18300 on
completion of five years service as Selection Grade Lecturers. The
competent authority among the respondents shall disburse the
consequential benefits to the petitioners within a period of four months
from the date of receipt of a certified copy of this judgment.
Respondents 1 and 2 shall make available to the State Government
their share of contribution if it has not so far been made available,
within two months from the date of receipt of a request in that regard
from the State Government.
The writ petitions are disposed of as above.
P.N.RAVINDRAN
Judge
TKS