Yogita Rani Bhagat v. State Of Chhattisgarh

NAFR HIGH COURT OF CHHATTISGARH, BILASPUR WPS No. 3203 of 2018 • Yogita Rani Bhagat D/o. Shri Laxmi Kant Bhagat, Aged About 35 Years Working As Lecturer (Panchayat) In Govt. Higher Secondary School Gumgarakalan, Block Lakhanpur, District Surguja Chhattisgarh. R/o Post Bagbahar, Tahsil Patthalgaon, District Jashpur Chhattisgarh., District : Jashpur, Chhattisgarh ---- Petitioner

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• State Of Chhattisgarh Through The Secretary, Panchayat And Rural Development Department Mantralaya, Mahanadi Bhawan, New Raipur, District Raipur Chhattisgarh., District : Raipur, Chhattisgarh • Chief Executive Officer Zila Panchayat Surguja, Ambikapur Chhattisgarh., District : Surguja (Ambikapur), Chhattisgarh ---- Respondents ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For Petitioner :

Mr. Sudeep Verma, Advocate.

For State :

Mr. Satish Gupta, GA ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hon'ble Shri Justice Manindra Mohan Shrivastava Order on Board 20/04/2018 Heard 1.

Learned counsel for the parties would submit that the issue raised in this petition is squarely covered by order dated 28.11.2017 passed by this Court in WPS No. 2530 of 2017 (Mukesh Kumar Patel and another Vs. State of Chhattisgarh and another) and batch of petitions wherein the circular dated 23.04.2016 has been quashed, petitions allowed and it has been declared that the petitioners therein shall be entitled to obtain the benefit of revised pay-scale on completion of 8 years service by including the services rendered by them on a lower post or on the same post. 2.

In view of the aforesaid submission and the impugned order and action is based on circular dated 23.04.2016 which has been quashed in the case referred to herein above, the petition also deserves to be allowed with the direction that the petitioner shall be entitled to obtain the benefit of revised pay-scale on completion of 8 years service by including the services rendered her on a lower post or on the same post.

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No order as to costs.

Sd/- (Manindra Mohan Shrivastava) Judge