Ghansham Ramdas Mundke And Others v. The State Of Maharashtra And Othes
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IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY
BENCH AT AURANGABAD WRIT PETITION NO. 8693 OF 2019 Ghansham Ramdas Mundke and others .. Petitioners
Versus
The State of Maharashtra and others .. Respondents Shri Ajay D. Pawar, Advocate for the Petitioner. Shri S. B. Yawalkar, Addl.G.P. for Respondent Nos. 1 to 4. CORAM : S. V. GANGAPURWALA AND MANGESH S. PATIL, JJ.
DATE : 07TH AUGUST, 2019.
FINAL ORDER :
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The learned counsel for petitioners and the learned Additional Government Pleader are ad idem that petitioners are similarly situated as petitioners in Writ Petition No. 1071 of 2017 with other connected writ petitions decided on 14.02.2017. 2.
In the light of the above, we follow the same course. (i) The impugned order is quashed and set aside.
(ii) We declare that the benefit of ACPS, which is applicable to the employees of Group 'C' and 'D' non-
2 wp 8693.19 teaching staff of the aided Private Schools in the State under the Government Resolution dated 30th April, 1998 as modified from time to time shall be available to the nonteaching staff of the same category in the private aided Ashram Schools ;
(iii) The appropriate Authority appointed by the State Government shall examine the individual cases of the members of the petitioners for deciding whether they satisfy the criteria laid down for availability of the benefit of ACPS to the private aided Government Schools under the Government Resolution dated 30th April, 1998 as modified from time to time;
(iv) We make it clear that the petitioners' member will be entitled to the benefit of the said scheme, provided they satisfy the eligibility criteria which is prescribed for the corresponding non-teaching staff of the private aided Schools;
(v) We grant time of six months to the respondents to scrutinize the cases of the members of the petitioner and to consider whether they are eligible for the benefit of ACPS; (vi) To those petitioners who are found eligible, the
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The writ petition is disposed of. No costs.
[MANGESH S. PATIL, J.] [S. V. GANGAPURWALA, J.] bsb/August 19