21676 of 2001 filed by the respondents herein was allowed and directions were issued to calculate the writ petitioners qualifying service from the date of their initial entry into service and to sanction and release the pensionary benefits accordingly.
If the date 1.5.1975 or 15.9.1975 is to be taken into account, the respondents will become eligible for pensionary benefit only if their service was companynted from the date of initial appointment, otherwise, they would number be companypleting ten years of qualifying service by 15.9.1975.
284 Finance dated 31.3.1980, the cutoff date for the purpose of eligibility to pension in respect of the erstwhile State Transport Department employees was fixed as 1.5.1975.
545 of 1998 which is the subject matter of S.L.P. C No.
Writ appeal No.
By G.O.No.
250 Transport dated 18.11.1996 the crucial date was changed to 15.9.1975.
The respondents were appointed as Conductors Drivers on daily wage basis in the then Madras State Transport Department MSTD .
1411 of 1994 which has given rise to Civil Appeal No.
1028 Transport dated 23.9.1985 read with G.O.No.
With arising outS.L.P. C No.
As the appellants took the stand that the daily wage service will number companynt in reckoning the qualifying service as per the Tamilnadu Pension Rules, the respondents filed writ petitions seeking direction to calculate their qualifying service in the MSTD from the date of their initial appointment as daily wage employees instead of companynting it from the date of their absorption on regular basis in Government service.
Later on i.e., by G.O.MS.No.
When the Pallavan Transport Corporation and Kattabomman Transport Corporation were formed, they were sent on deputation to the said Corporations which were bifurcated subsequently and they were permanently absorbed in the service of the said Corporations after calling for options from the respondents.
Writ appeal No.
21676/2001.
21676/2001 Venkatarama Reddi, J. Leave granted in S.L.P. C No.
494 of 2002 filed by the State of Tamilnadu against the order of the learned single Judge allowing the writ petition was dismissed.Their services were regularized one or two years later.
