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13 The Deputy Director, serving in the office of the census for population at Gandhinagar, by his communication in June 2011 informed that the Central Government, on the basis of 2011 census, had taken a decision as regards the various urban agglomeration considering the various criteria, and that, the urban agglomeration of 2001 census would continue in 2011 census. On the basis of the 2011 census, the status of Ahmedabad, now, falls in the "X" category of cities, and employees are entitled to 30% of the H.R.A. 14 On 30th May 2015, the Government of India upgraded certain HC-NIC Page 38 of 51 Created On Tue Jul 12 00:18:50 IST 2016 38 of 51 cities and towns on the basis of the 2011 census for the purpose of the grant of H.R.A. to its employees, and the Ahmedabad Urban Agglomeration under the reclassification is shown as "X" cities. A consequential memorandum was issued by the Government of India dated 21st July 2015 on the basis of the Sixth Pay Commission recommendations stating that the Ahmedabad Urban Agglomeration is classified as "X" city on the basis of the 2011 census, and was thus made a Metro city.
10 It appears that on receipt of the aforesaid abstract of the audit report, respondent No.2 Taluka Development Officer passed the order dated 8.4.1996 as stated above.
11 During the course of hearing, we have also noticed that in the list, almost 84 villages are shown to be falling within the limit of urban agglomeration area of Ahmedabad City as provided in the schedule at page 19 of the compilation, whereas for the same purpose, the District Panchayat Office has certified vide its order dated 8.1.1987 that 42 villages are falling within the limit of urban agglomeration area of Ahmedabad City. In this view of the matter it was the duty of the competent authority to verify as to exact number of villages which are falling within the limit of urban agglomeration area of Ahmedabad City as stipulated in the aforesaid Government Resolution dated 15.12.1975. Therefore, in our view, the aforesaid exercise is required to be undertaken by the competent authority forthwith to ascertain as to which villages are HC-NIC Page 43 of 51 Created On Tue Jul 12 00:18:50 IST 2016 43 of 51 falling within the limit of urban agglomeration area of Ahmedabad City and to decide claim and entitlement of the concerned employees accordingly.
28 Even the Government of Gujarat, Finance Department, showing the revised rates of the H.R.A. and C.L.A., at Annexure : 'G', page 39, entitles the writ applicants - employees to get the benefit of classification of cities - urban agglomeration and when 2001 census is accepted and the said urban agglomerations are acted upon, there is no reason why the urban agglomerations decided on the basis of 2011 census should be included which the writ applicants are getting as of now.
HC-NIC Page 46 of 51 Created On Tue Jul 12 00:18:50 IST 2016 46 of 51 29 In view of the Government of India changing the classification of Ahmedabad city from A1 category to "X" category of cities with effect from 1st April 2015, on the basis of census 2011, and thereby, the employees having their place of services within the Ahmedabad urban agglomeration as per census 2011 with Ahmedabad urban agglomeration as "X" classified city, shall get 30% H.R.A. and C.L.A. from 1st April 2015 and the Central Government employees serving in the Ahmedabad urban agglomeration, being "X" category classified city, have been getting 30% H.R.A. and proportionate C.L.A. since 1st April 2015.