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HONBLE MR. JUSTICE S.D. ANAND,JM

1.There is no dispute that the applicant herein was promoted as Security Officer during course of his posting at CSIR, Dhanbad w.e.f. 4.12.2000. There is also no dispute that he was transferred to CSIO, Chandigarh, on his own request, and he took over here w.e.f. 1.7.2002, as Security Officer. The grievance raised by the applicant herein is that instead of being placed in the pay scale of Rs.10000-15300, he has been put in the pay scale of Rs.6500-10500. He also relies upon the principle of equal pay for equal work. The claim aforementioned is buttressed by indicating a number of instances, though of other dispensations, wherein certain employees were granted that benefit on that principle.

4.Though no rejoinder came to be filed by the applicant, there is an averment in the course of para 4 (13) of the O.A. itself that the plea with regard to the availability of scale of Rs.10000-15300 was not to his notice and he filed a representation, Annexure A-16, the moment the availability of that scale came to his notice. That plea is extracted hereunder :-

That it is very pertinent to mention that the applicant approached respondents on 27.06.2006, 10.5.2011 and also filed O.A.No. CH-1086-2010 before this Honble Tribunal which was disposed of on 26.08.2011 (copy of the judgment dated 26.08.2011 is enclosed and marked as Annexure A-21 to this Original Application for up gradation / pay parity on other grounds than the Equal pay for equal work as he was not aware about the then (on 1.7.2002) prevalent scale of Rs.10000-15300 for Security Officer at CSIO. In August 2011, no sooner he learned from one of his friends (Annexure A-6&7) about it and without any further loss of time, approached the respondents (Annexure A-16) for redressal of his grievance.