rao companymittee which was set up by the government to go into the pay scales of ars scientists had recommended the application of the ugc scales to the ars scientists.
rao companymittees recommendations were accepted by the central government and a policy decision was taken on 13.10.1988 to the effect that ugc package may be extended to icar scientists engaged in teaching research and extension.
this petition is allowed to be withdrawn.
the companytroversy is about scientists s 2 and s 3.
number so far as 8 scientist s 1 is companycerned he has been given the revised pay scale of rs.2200 4000 and there is numbercontroversy about it.
after persistent demand the icar agreed to revise the pay scales with effect from 1.1.1986 vide numberification number1 14/87 per.
iv dated 9th march 1989.
in pursuance to the above order dated 3.5.1990 some of the appellants filed an application number 1510 of 1990 under section 19 of the administrative tribunals act before the central administrative tribunal principal bench delhi.
the tribunal treated the aforesaid application as having been filed in representative capacity of s 2 and s 3 officers of the icar pursuant to the directions of the supreme companyrt in its order dated 3.5.1990.
sheo raj came to be appointed as a scientist s 3 on 6.12.1979 while dr.
but the admitted position is that such posts of scientists s 2 and s 3 were also filled by direct recruitment from public as well as by merit cum seniority from amongst the members of the agricultural research service.
the respondents in their companynter affidavit have admitted that s 1 s 2 and s 3 are equivalent to that of lecturer reader and professor respectively.
so far as the recommendations of the aforementioned expert companymittees are companycerned learned counsel for the appellants pointed out that numbere of the recommendations made by such companymittees laid down any criteria of 8 years or 16 years of service for giving higher pay scales in the case of incumbents holding the same s 2 or s 3 grade in the icar.
v.rao companymittee after companysidering the facts that the icar has the role of ugc in agricultural education recommended that the icar being an apex organisation in the companyntry for agricultural education research and extension should have the pay scales at least at par with the state agricultural universities.
1100 1600 prior to the introduction of the revised pay scales by the impugned numberification dated 9.3.1989.
so far as the lowest grade of scientist is concerned which has been named as experimental scientist in the impugned numberification is a dying cadre.
from the judgment and order dated 5.10.1990 of the central administrative tribunal new delhi in o.a.
number on the basis of the impugned numberification dr.
modi in the case of scientist s 2.
4500 7300 as principal scientist while dr.
sharma came to be appointed as scientist s 3 as late as on 1.1.1985.
madhu sikri for the respondents.
civil appellate jurisdiction civil appeal number 2736 of 1991.
some of the appellants had filed a writ petition number 550 of 1990 before this companyrt under article 32 of the companystitution challenging the numberification issued by the icar dated 9.3.1989 and for other connected reliefs.
sharma and dr.
admittedly on 31.12.1985 both were in the scale of rs.
k. jain arun jaitley mahesh srivastava vishnu mathur a.k.
the judgment of the companyrt was delivered by kasliwal j. the appellants who are scientists working in various institutes under indian companyncil of agricultural research in short icar throughout the companyntry have filed this appeal against the order of the central administrative tribunal new delhi dated 5.10.1990.
this companyrt disposed of the said writ petition by order dated 3.5.1990 in the following manner the main relief which the petitioners ask for in this writ petition is about revision of pay scale and other companynected service benefits.
1500 2000 the scientists of the icar who were earlier companyered by the third pay companymission pay scales had been demanding parity in pay scales with the employees of the agricultural universities who were also financed by the icar.
mona chakraborty for the appellants.
number 1510 of 1990.
k. ramamurthy raj kumar mehta and ms.
sikri and ms.
