साथियो,
संवर्ग पुनर्सरचना के क्रियान्वयन के फलस्वरूप वरिष्ठ अनुवादक से सहायक निदेशकों के पद पर दी गई तदर्थ पदोन्नतियों को नियमित करने (वरीयता सूची में पहले स्थान पर श्री राजेश तनेजा से लेकर 160 वे स्थान पर श्री झारखण्डे सिंह तक) और तत्पश्चात सहायक निदेशक के पद पर दिनांक 30.04.2015 तक की सभी रिक्तियों को प्रमोशन द्वारा भरने के लिए माननीय केंद्रीय प्रशासनिक अधिकरण (CAT) द्वारा O.A संख्या 206 /2016 पर दिनांक 15.01.2016 को दिए गए निर्णय के अनुसार राजभाषा विभाग को इस O.A के अनुलग्नक A-5 पर विचार हेतु दो माह का समय दिया गया था, लेकिन इसी बीच UPSC द्वारा 50 पदों पर सीधी भर्ती की प्रक्रिया पर तेजी से कार्रवाई करने के मद्देनजर उक्त O.A संख्या 206 /2016 की समान विषय वस्तु (with cosmetic changes) के आधार पर 42 नए आवेदकों (तदर्थ सहायक निदेशक) के साथ एक नया वाद O.A संख्या 843/2016 दिनांक 26.02.2016 फाईल कराया गया था, जिस पर एडमिशन हेतु दिनांक 01.03.2016 को सुनवाई हुई थी।
संवर्ग पुनर्सरचना के क्रियान्वयन के फलस्वरूप वरिष्ठ अनुवादक से सहायक निदेशकों के पद पर दी गई तदर्थ पदोन्नतियों को नियमित करने (वरीयता सूची में पहले स्थान पर श्री राजेश तनेजा से लेकर 160 वे स्थान पर श्री झारखण्डे सिंह तक) और तत्पश्चात सहायक निदेशक के पद पर दिनांक 30.04.2015 तक की सभी रिक्तियों को प्रमोशन द्वारा भरने के लिए माननीय केंद्रीय प्रशासनिक अधिकरण (CAT) द्वारा O.A संख्या 206 /2016 पर दिनांक 15.01.2016 को दिए गए निर्णय के अनुसार राजभाषा विभाग को इस O.A के अनुलग्नक A-5 पर विचार हेतु दो माह का समय दिया गया था, लेकिन इसी बीच UPSC द्वारा 50 पदों पर सीधी भर्ती की प्रक्रिया पर तेजी से कार्रवाई करने के मद्देनजर उक्त O.A संख्या 206 /2016 की समान विषय वस्तु (with cosmetic changes) के आधार पर 42 नए आवेदकों (तदर्थ सहायक निदेशक) के साथ एक नया वाद O.A संख्या 843/2016 दिनांक 26.02.2016 फाईल कराया गया था, जिस पर एडमिशन हेतु दिनांक 01.03.2016 को सुनवाई हुई थी।
मूल याचिका O.A संख्या 843/2016 के महत्वपूर्ण बिंदु निम्नवत हैं :-
(i) Impugned Advertisement No. 12/2015 issued by UPSC vide which the
recruitment of Assistant Directors to fill up 50 vacancies has been
issued.
4.7 That since the restructuring order has been issued to remove the
stagnation in the Central Secretariat Official Language Service (CSOLS)
under Department of Official Language, such posts were to be filled up
without holding positive act of selection which involved only scrutiny of
service records of the senior most staff, subject to rejection of unfit. That,
the matter was considered at length in the Ministry of Home Affairs and it
was decided at the Apex level that all these resultant vacancies have to be
filed up by promotion in order of seniority.
4.9 That it is also relevant to notice that vide aforesaid order dated 10-2-
2012, the respondents promoted 60 more Senior Translators to the post
of ad hoc Assistant Director making the total strength of ad hoc
Assistant Directors to 160, where Shri Jharkhandey Singh is the junior
most. (circulated Seniority list of 160 ad hoc Assistant Directors
attached). 48 out of 160 ad hoc Assistant Directors are said to be
covered in DPC held in April 2015 for their regularization for pre -cadre
review period (i.e. vacancy year 2008-09, 2009-10 and 2010-11) as per
reply given under Right to Information Act. (Attached) and remaining
net 112 ad hoc Assistant Directors considered/counted against resultant
vacancies. It is not understood as to why the promotions made against
resultants vacancies and by following the due procedure have been
treated as Adhoc.
4.10 That being aggrieved by the said action of respondents, the applicants
requested to treat the adhoc promotions as regular promotions as per their
own decisions and the settled legal position
4.11 That the applicants had also submitted relevant documents to prove that
Ministry of Home Affairs had also approved the proposal of filling up
the resultant vacancies of restructuring by promotion only. The said
decision of the Ministry of Home Affairs had the approval of the
Ministry of Finance as well.
4.12 That after getting aforesaid information, the respondents had no reasons
to treat the promotions as Adhoc. However, the respondents remained
adamant and did not take necessary steps to treat the promotion of
applicants as regular. Considering the aforesaid conduct of the
respondents, the applicants submitted representations in 2014 and the last
representation was given on 22.05.2014. After receipt of said
representation/letter, the respondents sent a response dated 12.06.2014
wherein it was stated that 50 post of Assistant Director shall be filled up
by direct recruitment through Union Public Service Commission. The said
information was conveyed to the Association and the decision was
sought to be substantiated by stating that stagnation was said to be set off
by orders of the government giving the provision of ACP and MACP.
4.13 That in fact, both the aforesaid decisions conveyed vide letter dt.
12.6.2014 are erroneous because provision of ACP/MACP can not be
equated with the provision of promotion, particularly those promotions
which are by way of restructuring to remove the stagnation. Secondly, the
decision of the respondents to fill up 50 of resultant vacancies by direct
recruitment is also erroneous because the resultant posts have arisen as a
result of restructuring order which was passed by the government in order
to remove the stagnation and in this view of the matter, the action of the
respondents by deciding to fill up 50 of the vacancies by direct recruitment
is like giving by one hand and taking it by the other. The question of
filling up the resultant vacancies was not only arbitrary but was also
illegal inasmuch as, when the Ministry of Home Affairs with the approval
of Ministry of Finance had decided to fill up the resultant vacancies by
way of promotion only, how could the subordinate authority decide to fill
up 50 resultant vacancies by way of direct recruitment.
4.14 That the respondents appeared to be oblivious of the fact that in case 50
out of resultant vacancies as a result of restructuring are filled up by
direct recruitment, then the very purpose for which the restructuring order
was passed would be defeated.
4.15 That it is also relevant to notice that the respondent’s vide their letter dt.
12.6.2014 reveals that they had initiated the DPC proceedings asking
APAR of 98 Senior Translators vide their O.M. No. 15/15/2013-O.L
(Service) dated 29.01.2014 to fill up 65 posts of Assistant Director lying
vacant at that point of time on ad hoc arrangement in the same manner
as that of resultant vacancies for want of recruitment rules being the
post upgraded from group ”B” to group “A” by the 6th CPC.
Respondent/DPC cleared only 15 promotions out of 65 and took illogical
decision very late in year 2014 to fill up 50 posts by direct recruitment.
Had these vacancies been filled up, complete revised strength would
have been once filled up by ad hoc arrangement in the same manner as
that of resultant vacancies.
4.17 That before the issue of aforesaid advertisement the applicant made
several representation dated 24.06.2015 and 10.07.2015 through
Association to ensure that before resorting to direct recruitment as per the
new RRs notified in 2015 the vacancies became available under the old
RRs are filled up by way of promotion. In fact, vide notification dated
01.05.2015 the respondents amended the RRs for the post of Assistant
Director and categorized the same as group “A” post in the scale of Rs.
15600-39100 with grade pay of Rs. 5400. Since before making aforesaid
amendment, the post was categorised as group “B” and in the
advertisement the same was shown as group “A”, the respondents were
required to ensure that only new vacancies occurred after notification of
RRs are filled up. However, the respondents acted arbitrarily and
decided to give 50 vacancies from the newly created vacancies to the
direct recruits and that too by violating the settled legal position that the
vacancies occurred under old RRs can not be filled up by new RRs.
4.20 That being aggrieved by the said arbitrary action of the respondents the
applicants submitted representation on 25.01.2016 through Dinesh Kumar
Singh, President of central Secretariat Official Language Service
Translators Association for rectifying the said illegality and to pass
necessary orders regarding regularization of Adhoc service as well as
filling of 112 resultant vacancies by considering the Adhoc A.D appearing
up to the name of Sh. Jharkhande Singh (Seniority No. 160).
5. GROUNDS:
A. Because the respondents have acted in most arbitrary and unjustified
manner inasmuch as, on one hand they have not regularized the
promotion of applicants as Assistant Director and on other hand
issued advertisement No. 12/2015.
B. Because when the applicants were promoted as Adhoc Assistant
Director by following the same procedure as followed while making
regular promotion, after examining their eligibility and suitability
asper rules and against clear vacancies, the respondents were
required to treat the promotion of applicants as regular. The Hon’ble
Apex Court has also ruled so in the following cases:-
(a) Direct Recruit Class-II Engineering Officers Association & Ors. Vs State
(b) State of W.B & Ors. V. Aghore Nath Dey & Ors., (1993) 3 SCC 371
(c) N.K Chauhan & Ors. V. State of Gujarat, AIR 1977 SCC 251[Paras 30 to
(d) S.B. Patwardhan V. State of Maharashtra, (1977) 3 SCC 399 [Paras 39
(e) Baleshwar Das V. State of U.P., (1980) 4 SCC 226 [Paras 30 to 36].
(f) A. Janardhan V. Union of India, (1983) 3 SCC 601 [Paras 38 & 34].
(g) B.S Mathur & Anr. V. Union of India, (2008) 10 SCC 271 [Paras 12, 39,
(h) Sunil Kumar Mehra V. M.C.D. & Anr., WP
(C) Because when the sufficient vacancies of Assistant Director were
available and the applicants were fully qualified and eligible in terms
of RRs for promotion and there was no dispute about their seniority in
the feeder category, respondents were not justified in not granting
regular promotion to the applicants as Assistant Director and
promoting them on Adhoc basis. The applicants were required to be
promoted as Assistant Director on regular basis.
F. Because while not filling the resultant vacancies in accordance with
the mandate of para 2 of OM dated 12.09.2011, the respondents have
erred in law as well as facts. It is strange that the respondents are not
following their own decisions in the matter of filling up vacancies of
Assistant Director.
H. Because the respondents have failed to consider that in respect of
similar cadre restructuring in the cadre of Central Secretariat
Stenographer Service, in terms of order dated 27.01.2011, similar
provision was made for filling up the resultant vacancies through
seniority quota as a one time measure but no objection was raised by
any official because the order dated 27.01.2011 was issued by DOP&T
itself.
I. Because the respondents have acted in most arbitrary and unjustified
manner as when the issue regarding filling up all the vacancies of
Assistant Director till the notification of new RRs as well as the
vacancies became available due to cadre restructuring were required
to be fill up by way of promotion was under consideration, how could
all of the sudden, the advertisement be issued to fill up the vacancies
meant for promotion by way of direct recruitment.
K. Because it is clear from the respondents own documents that out of
65 normal vacancies, only 15 vacancies were consumed for Adhoc
promotion and remaining 50 vacancies reserved for direct
recruitment without any justification. Even the process of
regularization of 56 and then 17 Adhoc Assistant Directors was
initiated against the normal vacancy year 2012-13 and not the
resultant vacancy year 2011-12 as evident from office memorandum
dated 13.05.2015 & 31.08.2015.
8. RELIEFS SOUGHT :
For the facts and circumstances stated in above, it is most respectfully
prayed that their lordship of this Tribunal would be pleased:-
(a) To declare the action of the respondents in not regularizing
the promotion of applicants as Assistant Director from the
date of grant of Adhoc promotion as illegal and arbitrary and
direct the respondents to regularize the Adhoc promotion and
fix the seniority of applicants as Assistant Director from the
date of Adhoc promotion with all consequential benefits..
(b) To declare the action of the respondents in filling up 50
vacancies of Assistant Director created due to cadre
restructuring by way of Direct recruitment as illegal and set
aside the impunged advertisement No. 12/2015 and issue
further directions to fill up all the vacancies of Assistant
Director created on account of cadre restructuring and
regular vacancies till the notification of new RRs dated
01.05.2015 by promotion..
(c) To allow the O.A with costs.
(d) Pass such other direction or directions order or orders as this
Hon’ble Tribunal may deem fit and proper to meet the ends of
justice.
9. INTERIM RELIEF :
Pending final adjudication of the OA, it is humbly prayed that this
Hon’ble Tribunal may be pleased to restrain the respondents from
finalising the selection to the post of Assistant Director as per
Advertisement No. 12/2015. In case, the interim stay is not granted, the
applicants would suffer irreparable loss as the UPSC has already fixed
the date of exam as 20.03.2016.
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Order of hearing conducted on 01.03.2016 is as under:
Central Administrative Tribunal
Principal Bench
New Delhi
O.A.No.843/2016
M.A.No.828/2016
M.A.No.829/2016
Order Reserved on: 01.03.2016
Order pronounced on 03.03.2016
Hon’ble Shri V. Ajay Kumar, Member (J)
Hon’ble Shri Shekhar Agarwal, Member (A)
Sh. Pratap Singh & Others ...
Applicants
(By Advocate: Shri M.K.Bhardwaj)
Versus
Union of India & Others ... Respondents
O R D E R (on admission)
By V. Ajay Kumar, Member (J):
Heard the learned counsel for the applicants.
2. M.A.No.828/2016, filed for joining together under Rule 4(5) of the Central Administrative
Tribunals (Procedure) Rules, 1987, is allowed.
3. MA No.829/2016, filed for exemption from filing legible copies of dim annexures, is
disposed of with a direction to the applicants to file the same within two weeks from today.
4. Issue notice to the respondents, returnable on 06.04.2016.
5. Issue DASTI.
(Shekhar Agarwal) (V. Ajay Kumar)
Member (A) Member (J)
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उपरोक्त दोनों वादों की अद्यतन स्थिति के लिए निम्नलिखित सदस्यों से संपर्क किया जा सकता है:-
1. श्री दिनेश कुमार सिंह, अध्यक्ष, अनुवादक एसोसिएशन, Mob-9211709196
2. श्री डी पी मिश्रा, तदर्थ सहायक निदेशक , Mob-9312134004
3. श्री के के मिश्रा, तदर्थ सहायक निदेशक, Mob-9910391451
4. श्री राजकुमार रावत, वरिष्ठ अनुवादक , Mob-9711700535
5. श्री तरुण कुमार, वरिष्ठ अनुवादक, Mob-9871698694
6. श्री अजय कुमार झा, वरिष्ठ अनुवादक, Mob-9868268751
1. श्री दिनेश कुमार सिंह, अध्यक्ष, अनुवादक एसोसिएशन, Mob-9211709196
2. श्री डी पी मिश्रा, तदर्थ सहायक निदेशक , Mob-9312134004
3. श्री के के मिश्रा, तदर्थ सहायक निदेशक, Mob-9910391451
4. श्री राजकुमार रावत, वरिष्ठ अनुवादक , Mob-9711700535
5. श्री तरुण कुमार, वरिष्ठ अनुवादक, Mob-9871698694
6. श्री अजय कुमार झा, वरिष्ठ अनुवादक, Mob-9868268751
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