benefits under Liberalized Active Retirement Scheme for Guaranteed Employment for Safety Staff (LARSGESS for short) has not been acceded to.
OA No.2424/2013 ... from service and grant of alternate employment to his son under the LARSGESS. As he and his son have fulfilled the requisite conditions prescribed
father of
the applicant submitted an application seeking voluntary
retirement under the LARSGESS Scheme in the year 2014-
15. The competent authority accepted his request ... found that Shri Suresh Kumar
was not eligible for VRS under the LARSGESS Scheme
because it required 20 years of qualifying service.
Consequently, the respondents
nomenclature as Liberalized Active Retirement Scheme for guaranteed Employment for Safety Staff (LARSGESS for short)and extended the aforesaid benefits to other safety categories ... Railway Headquarters Office, vide their letter dated 11.11.2010, forwarded copies of the LARSGESS to all the Divisional Railway Managers working under them directing the latter
2015
under Liberalized Active Retirement Scheme for Guaranteed
Employment for Safety Staff (LARSGESS Scheme) in 2010 and
requested that his son be appointed as Assistant ... also decided to modify the
nomenclature of the scheme as LARSGESS Scheme in which
two things were modified, In that, the benefit was extended
under the Liberalized
Active Retirement Scheme for Guaranteed Employment
for Safety Staff (LARSGESS) Scheme has been denied by
the respondents without considering his eligibility ... further submits that at the time of interview
and written examination, LARSGESS Scheme was in
operation and, therefore, the effect of the subsequent
closure
respondents appeared and informed that this is a case of LARSGESS
Scheme which has been discontinued since 2017 by the Railway
Board‟s letter ... which the reliefs sought for
extension of benefits under LARSGESS Scheme are reproduced
hereunder:-
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"8.1 to allow the OA and direct the respondents
scheme as Liberalized Active Retirement
Scheme for Guaranteed Employment for Safety Staff
(LARSGESS Scheme) in which two things were modified, In
that, the benefit ... years. Other terms and
conditions of the scheme remain unchanged. LARSGESS
Scheme was to be implemented in two cycles every year, i.e.
January
under the Liberalized Active
Retirement Scheme for Guaranteed Employment for Safety Staff
(LARSGESS) of the Railways. In brief, the LARSGESS Scheme of the
Railways ... Vide order dated 02.07.2015, the
applicant's prayer for benefit under LARSGESS Scheme was
rejected on the ground that the employee was overage, taking
outset, counsel for the respondents informed that
this is a case of LARSGESS Scheme which has been
discontinued since 2017 by the Railway Board ... which the reliefs sought
for extension of benefits under LARSGESS Scheme are
reproduced hereunder:-
"(a) To direct the respondents to issue an
offer appointment
counsel for the respondents
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informed that this is a case of LARSGESS Scheme which has been
discontinued since 2017 by the Railway Board ... which the reliefs sought for
extension of benefits under LARSGESS Scheme are reproduced
hereunder:-
"(i) That the Hon'ble Tribunal may graciously
