Miss Sunita Dewangan v. The State Of Chhattisgarh

-1NAFR HIGH COURT OF CHHATTISGARH AT BILASPUR Writ Petition (S) No. 6461 of 2019 Miss Sunita Dewangan D/o Mr. Shyam Lal Dewangan Aged About 41 Years By Occupation Food Inspector, Collector Office (Food Department), Kanker Block Narharpur, District Uttar Baster Kanker Chhattisgarh. ---- Petitioner

Versus

1. The State of Chhattisgarh Through Its Secretary, Food And Consumer Department Mantralaya Naya Raipur, District Raipur Chhattisgarh.

2. Director Women and Child Development Department Mantralaya, Naya Raipur District Raipur Chhattisgarh.

3. Commissioner Cum Director Aarthik Evam Sankhikhiya, Sanchanalaya, Koushailya Bhawan, Parisar Bairan Bazar, District Raipur Chhattisgarh. ---Respondents For Petitioner :

Shri Parag Kotecha, Advocate For State :

Shri Ashutosh Mishra, Panel Lawyer Hon'ble Shri Justice P. Sam Koshy Order on Board 27.08.2019

1. The grievance of the petitioner in the present writ petition is the non granting of revised pay scale on completing 8 years of service.

2. The petitioner herein was initially appointed in the Women and Child Development Department and subsequently have been again taken in the Arthik Evam Sankhikiya Department and thereafter with the Food Department. However, the Department is not accepting the total length of service rendered by the petitioner for the purpose of granting of revised pay scale.

3. Counsel for the parties fairly submit that the issue raised in the present writ petition stands squarely covered by a bunch of writ petitions decided by this Court on 27.10.2018, the leading case being WPS No. 6147 of 2018 (Shabnum Khatun Vs. State of Chhattisgarh and others).

-24. Given the aforesaid facts and circumstances of the case, the present writ petition also deserves to be and is accordingly disposed of in similar terms as in the case of Shabnum Khatun (supra). The petitioner would be entitled for the benefit as prayed for subject to verification of the case by the Department so far as the length of service and other eligibility criteria is concerned.

Sd/- (P. Sam Koshy) Judge inder