Dr.A.Sudandiramani v. The State Of Tamilnadu

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT MADRAS

DATED : 02.08.2023

CORAM

THE HONOURABLE MR.JUSTICE G.K.ILANTHIRAIYAN

1. Dr.A.Sudandiramani

2. Dr.M.P.Rajendran

3. Dr.V.S.Gajapathi

4. Dr.T.N.Varadarajan

5. Dr.Abideen Bobujee Peter

6. Dr.R.Govindarajan

7. Dr.N.Pandurangan

8. Dr.M.Venkataraman

9. Dr.R.Sivaramakrishnan

10. Dr.M.Balasubramanian

11. Dr.L.Chandrasekaran

12. Dr.N.Subramanian

13. Dr.R.Raghavan

14. Dr.T.M.Duraikumar

15. Dr.Javid Ahmed

16. Dr.A.S.Paripuranam

17. Dr.N.Velayuthan

18. Dr.N.Manickavachakan

19. Dr.R.Sivanandam

20. Dr.G.Janardhanan

21. Dr.V.K.Srinivasan

22. Dr.S.Isac Mohanraj

23. Dr.A.R.Jagath Narayanan

24. Dr.R.Subramani

25. Dr.K.Ekambaram

26. Dr.V.Veerabadran

27. Dr.D.Rajaram

28. Dr.Iqbal Ahmed

29. Dr.N.V.Sridharan

30. Dr.S.Sankaralingam

31. Dr.V.Veereswarayya

32. Dr.V.S.Mani

33. Dr.K.P.Rajasekaran

34. Dr.P.Inbasekaran

35. Dr.S.N.Venkatesan

36. Dr.K.Pandurangan

37. Dr.P.N.Narayanan

38. Dr.T.R.Sivasubramanyam

39. Dr.Francis Samuel Mohan

40. Dr.M.Elanchelian

41. Dr.S.K.Padmanaban

42. Dr.P.Gurusamy

43. Dr.M.Jayaseelan

44. Dr.C.J.Purushothaman

45. Dr.A.R.Mahadevan

46. Dr.A.R.Ranga Rao

47. Dr.R.Nedunchezhiyan

48. Dr.A.Sivaramakrishnan

49. Dr.R.Umapathy

50. Dr.K.Balaraman

51. Dr.K.Murthy

52. Dr.M.V.Ram Mohan

53. K.MD.Aboo Bucker

54. R.Baladhandayuthapani

55. R.Selvaraju

56. A.Akbar Ali

57. N.Ganesan

58. T.Ganapathy

59. S.Abbas Ali

60. M.Nathappan

61. P.Mohan Raj

62. P.Manohar

63. J.Rajendran Cleur

64. N.Balasubramanian

65. R.Jothiraj

66. M.Arulmani

67. V.Subramanian

68. Dr.R.Victor Bakthan

69. Dr.Sengottuvelu

70. Dr.N.Muthuraju

71. Dr.A.Frazer Thomas

72. Dr.M.Ganesamoorthy

73. Dr.V.Mahendran

74. Dr.D.Gunaseelan

75. Dr.V.Ramalingam

76. Dr.E.Mahalingam

77. Dr.S.E.Thiagarajan

78. Dr.K.Nalliyam

79. Dr.T.Manimuthu Bose

80. Dr.AN Mohan Ram

81. Dr.S.Sevaprakasam

82. Dr.S.Chinnasamy

83. Dr.K.Periyasamy

84. Dr.T.Arumugam

85. Dr.N.E.Dheenadayalan

86. Dr.P.Kannan

87. Dr.V.S.Murahari

88. Dr.K.Gnanasambandam

89. Dr.R.Balasubramanian

90. Dr.R.Thirunavukarasu

91. Dr.M.S.Meenkashi Sundaram

92. Dr.I.L.S.Christopher

93. Dr.M.Rajendran

94. Dr.P.Gnasekaran

95. Dr.R.Jayakumar

96. Dr.A.S.Sadasivan

97. Dr.K.M.Sathyamurthi

98. Dr.P.M.Thangavel

99. Dr.K.E.Mahaboob Sahib

100. Dr.C.Natarajan

101. Dr.S.Swaminathan

102. Dr.C.S.Sridhar

103. P.N.Shanmugam

104. Dr.R.Chenniappan

105. Dr.V.Natarajan

106. Dr.P.Kamarajan

107. Dr.Veluchamy

108. Dr.R.Gangatharan

109. Dr.S.Gurumohandas Gandhi

110. Dr.A.Ramasamy

111. Dr.B.Ponraj

112. Dr.A.Rajendran

113. R.Boominathan

114. R.Sethuraman

115. Dr.Sivaprakasam

116. Dr.Uthanumallian N

117. Dr.K.Rajagopal

118. Dr.P.Kannuchamy

119. Dr.C.Kanakaraj

120. Dr.P.Rangakrishnan

121. Dr.Kalayanasundaram

122. Dr.L.Somasundram

123. Dr.R.Sivagaminathan

124. Dr.Thangaraj Rathinasamy

125. Dr.G.Namasivayam

126. Dr.P.Muthuveerapandian

127. Dr.M.Subramanian

128. Dr.A.Chidambaram

129. Dr.R.Chellappa

130. Dr.S.Ramakrishnan

131. T.Jeevagan

132. Dr.F.Babu Manohar

133. Dr.B.Jayaseelan

134. Dr.A.John Malachi Thilagam

135. Dr.B.Baskaran

136. Dr.S.N.N.Mohammed Ali Jinna

137. D.Ganttalu N.Ramanujam

138. Dr.V.Sankaranarayana

139. Dr.S.Radhakrishnan

140. Dr.V.Srinivasan

141. Dr.T.Raju

142. Dr.B.Arumugam Pushparaj

143. Dr.D.Natarajan

144. Dr.S.Ganapathy

145. Dr.S.Kalyanaraman

146. Dr.E.Kumarakurubaran

147. J.Rexraj

148. R.J.D.Sugistha Raj

149. M.Abraham Berty Chandran

150. Jeyachandran Israel

151. N.Sivanandham

152. Dr.M.Vasagan

153. Dr.S.Muthusamy

154. Dr.M.E.Jothiraj

155. Dr.K.Subramani Pillai

156. Dr.P.S.Subbiah

157. Dr.T.V.Shanmugavelu

158. Dr.P.Pothiraj

159. Dr.A.Jeyaseetha Raman

160. Dr.J.Talbert Dawson

161. Dr.A.K.Gurunathan

162. Dr.K.Jagadeesan

163. Dr.AV.M.Ganesan

164. Dr.K.Manoharan

165. D.T.Mohan

166. Dr.N.Abdul Khadar

167. Dr.Gilbert Rajkumar

168. Dr.N.Rajagopalan ... Petitioners -Vs1. The State of Tamil Nadu, represented by Principal Secretary to Government, Finance Department, Fort St.George, Chennai 600 009.

... Respondent Prayer:- Writ Petition filed under Article 226 of Constitution of India for the issuance of Writ of Certiorari, to call for the records of the respondent in G.O.Ms. No.71 Finance dated 26.02.2011 and quash the said order of the respondent dated 26.02.2011.

For Petitioners : Mr.E.Manoharan For Respondent : Mr.M.P.Murugan Raja Government Advocate

ORDER

This Writ Petition has been filed respondent in G.O.Ms. No.71 Finance dated 26.02.2011 and quash the same.

2. Heard the learned counsel for the petitioners and the learned counsel for the respondent and perused the materials available on record.

3. The similarly placed persons challenged G.O.Ms.No.71 Finance Department dated 26.02.2011 before this Court. The Hon'ble Division Bench of this Court in a batch of writ appeals and also other writ petitions, disposed of with the following directions:- "51. In such circumstances, the writ appeals and writ petitions are disposed of with the following directions: (i) The Government shall constitute a Pay Grievance Redressal Committee under the Chairmanship of Hon'ble Mr.Justice A.S.Venkatachalamoorthy, formerly Judge of this Court, who was elevated and retired as Chief Justice of the Chattishgarh High Court. (ii) The Government is at liberty to nominate one or two Senior level IAS Officers at the level of Principal Secretary, serving/retired as Member(s) of the Pay Grievance Redressal Committee.

(iii) The Pay Grievance Redressal Committee shall be given specific terms of reference by the Government, with a request to submit a report/recommendations for taking fresh decision regarding the enhancement/reduction of the pay scales/grade pay of 52 or more categories of 20 or more departments, etc.

(iv) The Government is directed to constitute the above said committee within a period of three weeks from the date of receipt of copy of this order, prescribing time limit, within which

report/recommendations is to be submitted for taking fresh decision. (v) In view of the constitution of the above said Committee as ordered above, the implementation of G.O.Ms.No.71 dated 26.2.2011 and G.O.Ms.No.242 dated 22.7.2013 insofar as it affects any category of Government Servants/ pensioners/family pensioners, which are not implemented as on today shall not be implemented till fresh decision is taken.

(vi) If any of the categories of Government servants of any department, who have been offered higher scales of pay as on today, it is open to the Government to implement the same insofar as the pay scales, which are beneficial to the employees of such categories. (vii) As we have appointed the Chairman of the PGRC, we direct the Government of Tamil Nadu to make available office premises with supporting staff and to provide a Government car with driver for the use of the Chairman for effective functioning of the Committee.

(viii) We fix the remuneration for the Chairman of the Committee as Rs.1.50 lakhs per month and direct the Government to sanction necessary funds towards remuneration and for meeting other expenses for effective functioning of the Committee. (ix) It is open to the Government to fix remuneration of the Members/Member of the Committee, to be nominated by the Government, if they are retired IAS officer(s)."

4. Aggrieved by the same, the Tamil Nadu Rural Development Engineers and Assistant Engineers Association filed an appeal before the Hon'ble Supreme Court of India in Civil Appeal Nos.10030-10189, 10190, 10191 and 10192 of 2017. While disposing the appeals, insofar as the direction issued by the Hon'ble Division Bench of this Court the Point Nos. (iii), (v) to (vii) were accepted and did not call for any change. Simultaneously other directions were issued by the Hon'ble Supreme Court of India and all the Civil Appeals are with some more directions.

5. In view of the orders passed by the Hon'ble Division Bench of this Court and confirmed by the Hon'ble Supreme Court of India, G.O.Ms.No.71 Finance dated 26.02.2011 had already been quashed.

6. Recording the above, this writ petition is closed. No costs. 02.08.2023 Internet : Yes Index : Yes/No Speaking order/Non-speaking order mn To The Principal Secretary to Government, The State of Tamil Nadu, Finance Department, Fort St.George, Chennai 600 009.

G.K.ILANTHIRAIYAN, J.

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