CAT to UT: Pay enhanced salary to contractual teachers

Allowing the petition preferred by Chandigarh’s contractual mistress Rupinderjit Kaur and lecturer Aneet Inder Kaur,a division bench of Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) headed by Justice Shyama Dogra on Tuesday directed the UT Administration to release the enhanced consolidated salary with effect from 2007 in pursuance to the UT Administration’s policy decision.

It was argued before the bench on behalf of the petitioners that the UT administration had taken a policy decision vide circular dated March 13,2007 to revise the consolidated monthly salary of contractual masters/mistresses from Rs 8000 to Rs 9900 w.e.f. January 1,2007. Similarly,vide subsequent policy circular dated January 10,2008 and March 5,2009,the said salary was further enhanced to Rs 10500 and Rs 11200 w.e.f. January 1,2008 and January 1,2009 respectively.

Similar pay enhancements were made with regard to contractual JBT teachers and lecturers. However,since the arrears of the same were not released to the contractual teachers,the petitioners approached the CAT which has directed the UT Administration to release the enhanced salary within a period of two months.