Implementation of Shetty Pay Commission recommendations
Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Feb 18: In a petition filed by the employees borne on the cadre of Subordinate Courts through JEWA State President Mangat Ram Parihar and others seeking implementation of Shetty Pay Commission recommendations, Division Bench of High Court comprising Chief Justice Pankaj Mithal and Justice Javed Iqbal Wani has directed Chief Secretary BVR Subrahmanyam, Law Secretary Achal Sethi and Principal Secretary, Finance, Dr Arun Kumar Mehta to file Action Taken Report (ATR) failing which they shall appear in person.
After perusal of the record, the DB observed, “the basic purpose of filing this petition is for the implementation of the recommendations of Shetty Pay Commission with effect from 01.04.2003 as has also been directed by the Supreme Court vide judgment/ order dated 07.10.2009 passed in the writ petition titled India Judges’ Association and Others Versus Union of India and Others”
During the course of hearing, Senior Advocate Pranav Kohli Amicus Curiae submitted an affidavit of Mangat Ram Parihar, who is one of the Section Officers in the subordinate courts of the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir and elaborately pinpointed the shortcomings in the implementation of the Shetty Commission recommendations.
After reading the affidavit, the DB said, “even the High Court/the Registrar General has not cared to take necessary steps to remove or to cure the deficiencies pointed out in the affidavit. At the same time State has also not taken any effective steps for the creation of posts and for the removal of other anomalies”.
“The court vide order dated 28.09.2020 had directed for incorporating the Chief Secretary, Law Secretary and Principal Secretary, Finance as respondents, probably in the proceedings for the contempt initiated for disobedience of the orders of the High Court passed in this petition from time to time”, the DB said, adding “neither the Registrar General nor the officers have cared to file any further report”.
“In the interest of justice, as a last opportunity, we allow all these officers to respond to the affidavit dated 18.02.2020 of Mangat Ram Parihar filed by Amicus Curiae and to inform the court if any action so as to remove the shortcomings pointed out therein have been taken or the time within which they are proposed to be removed”, the DB, adding “in case, such an Action Taken Report is not filed within a period of one month from today, all the officers would remain present before the court on the next date—-18th March 2021”.
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