CENTRAL RAILWAY AUDIT STAFF ASSOCIATION V NAGESWARA RAO P PRABHAKAR NORTHERN RAILWAY AUDIT ASSOCIATION Vs. DIRECTOR OF AUDIT CENTRAL RAILWAY:CHAIRMAN RAILWAY BOARD:CHAIRMAN RAILWAY BOARD:UNION OF INDIA

JUDGEMENT

(1.) IN these Special Leave Petitions, we are concerned with the grievance of the employees belonging to the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General of INdia, working in the Railway Audit Department. These employees who were Section Officers prior to 1/03/1984, got promotion from that day as Assistant Audit Officers on a pay scale of Rs. 650-30-740-35-800-EB40-650 and were designated as Officers 'Group-B Gazetted'. On the recommendations of the Fourth Pay Commission, the said pay scale of Assistant Audit Officers was revised to Rs. 2,000-3,200 from 1/01/1986. The grievance of the Assistant Audit Officers - Group B Gazetted is that the INdian Railways should not have denied to them the benefits, such as, issue of Railway Travel Passes/ P.T.Os., allotment of Railway Quarters, giving of accommodation in Rest Houses/ Retiring Rooms, taking of family members While on tour, etc. - admissible to Group B Gazetted Officers of the Railways.

(2.) THE Principal Bench of the Central Administrative Tribunal, to be referred to hereinafter as "the Tribunal", which examined the said grievance, rejected it by order dated 13/03/1992. THE grievance, so rejected by the Tribunal, is again ventilated in these Special Leave Petitions, seeking redressal therefor.

(3.) IT was mentioned in the above letter that the same was issued with the sanction of the President of India. The policy contained in the above letter was followed by the Indian Railways for several years.