Solicitor General, V.K. Verma and Ms. Ameeka Singh for the Respondents.
N. Dwivedi, Addl.
2000 3200.
But, the companytents of the said letter were modified by a telegram, which read thus No.
In partial numberification of Ministry of Railways letter of even number dated 27.7.89 Ministry of Railway have decided that the Assistant Audit Officers given the Gazetted status between 1st March, 1984 and 31.12.1985 shall companytinue to enjoy the facility of passes, PTOS.
The Judgment of the Court was delivered by VENKATACHALA,J. In these Special Leave Petitions, we are companycerned with the Grievance of the employees belonging to the office of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India, working in the Railway Audit Department.
2000 3200 may be given the privileges and facilities viz.
These employees who were Section Officers prior to 1st March, 1984, got promotion from that day as Assistant Audit Officers on a pay scale of Rs.
From the judgment and Order dated 13.3.1992 of the Central Administrative Tribunal, New Delhi in O.A. No.
E W 87PS51/3.
650 30 740 35800 EB 40 1040 and were designated as Officers Group B Gazetted.
Even then, the Assistant Audit Officers who Were designated as Group B Gazetted companytinued to have the privileges and facilities of Group B Officers of the Indian Railways.
On the recommendations of the Fourth Pay Commission the said pay scale of Assistant Audit Officers was revised to Rs.
The said letter shows that it had been issued with the companycurrence of the Finance Directorate of the Ministry of Railways.
2,000 3,200 from 1st January, 1986.
2,000 3,200 from 1st January, 1986 as per the recommendations of the Fourth Pay Commission.
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and the rules governing their issue will be the same as applicable to Railway servants from time to time.
The Principal Bench of the Central Administrative Tribunal, to be referred to herein after as the Tribunal, which examined the said grievance, rejected it by order dated 13th March, 1992.
allotment of Railway Quarters, giving of accommodation in Rest Houses Retiring Rooms, taking of family members while on tour, etc.
The policy companytained in the above letter was followed by the Indian Railways for several years.
K. Ramamoorthy, H.S. Gururaja Rao, R. Venkataramani, S.M. Garg, T.L. Roy, T.V. Ratnam, E.X. Joseph, D.N. Paul and M.M. Kashyap for the Petitioners.
2000 3500, Supervisors in scale Rs.
It was mentioned in the above letter that the same was issued with the sanction of the President of India.
Similar numberice, it is said, was issued by the companycerned Director of Audit of every other Zone of the lndian Railways.
The said scale of the pay of the Assistant Audit Officers Group B Gazetted came to be revised as Rs.
Passes P.T.0s.
enjoyed by them as a result of companyferring of the gazetted status on them during the period mentioned above As personal to them.
262 of 1991.
10784 of 1992 etc.
