which the benchmark grading is necessary. Those Grades
Pay are not that of promotional post on non-selection basis. It requires
benchmark grade as prescribed ... grade, he is entitled to
Grade Pay of Rs.7600/- and 8700/- respectively. As noticed supra, for
granting such a higher Grade Pay, the benchmark
were duly upgraded from Below Benchmark to Above
Benchmark grading, the Review DPC should have been constituted to
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By:JYOTIRMOY ... assessed as 'Unfit‟ for
not meeting the required benchmark grade of „Very Good‟ due to his
confidential record of service
grade of the post, only the pay band/ scale
and not the grade pay of the post should be taken into
account. Accordingly, the benchmark ... grade pay of the post and not only the pay band of the
post and to ignore the grade pay, while deciding the
benchmark grade
graded below benchmark. Whereafter, based on the directions contained in OM dated 13.04.2010, the below benchmark grading was communicated to the respondent ... below benchmark ACR gradig in Competent Authority and since there were no grounds for upgradation of below benchmark grading of ACR for the period
expunge the adverse remarks and below
benchmark grade in the impugned APARs
for both the relevant periods from ... relevant period agreed with
the aforesaid adverse remarks and below benchmark
grade entered by the Reporting Officer without exercising
any independent thought and submitted
whereby the the representations
filed against the below benchmark grading/adverse entries made in the
ACR/APAR for the period from ... assessment made
by the Reporting Officer and had granted him below benchmark grading
i.e. 3.78 numerical grading on the basis of overall weightage given
Since the petitioner has been unable to meet the
requisite minimum benchmark grading, as per the requirement of the
Promotion Policy of the respondent-organization ... APARs, and the petitioner not meeting the requisite minimum
benchmark grading required as per the Promotion Policy of the respondent-
organization, the petitioner
failed to appreciate that once the petitioner had been
granted below benchmark gradings in his ACRs for the aforesaid three
years, the same ought ... only pursuant to OM dated 14.05.2009 that ACRs containing
below benchmark grading were also required to be communicated to the
concerned employee. However, this
failed to appreciate that once the petitioner had been
granted below benchmark gradings in her ACRs for the aforesaid years, the
same ought to have ... only pursuant to OM dated 14.05.2009 that ACRs containing
below benchmark grading were also required to be communicated to the
concerned employee. However, this
held on 21.07.2020 as she had not achieved the benchmark grading
of 'Very Good' in the ACR for the year 2017-18. Petitioner ... legal position stands crystallized insofar
as non-communication of below benchmark grading in the ACR is
concerned. In fact, in Dev Dutt (supra), the Supreme
