Rina Dutta Roy Chowdhury And ORS. v. State Of West Bengal And ORS.

13.06.2024 Item No.27 RP Ct. No.13 WPA 14027 of 2024 Rina Dutta Roychowdhury & Ors.

Vs.

The State of West Bengal & Ors.

Mr. Tulsi Das Maiti Mr. Pradip Kumar Ghosh .....For Petitioners Mr. Prasanta Kumar Giri Ms. Dipa Bhattacharya .....For State Mr. B.P. Vaisya Mr. Gourav Das .....For DPSC, South 24 Parganas 1.

The instant writ petition is squarely covered by the order dated December 1, 2021 passed by this Court. 2.

The appeal being MAT No.714 of 2020 has been disposed of by a judgment and order dated January 5, 2024 passed by a Division Bench of this Court that was heard along with MAT 107 of 2022 and other appeals. The Division Bench has held that teachers who completed their training qualification for the year 2005-06 in the year 2011 are entitled to "A" category pay scale since the delay in declaring their qualification is not attributable to them. 3.

This Court, following the said Division Bench judgment, has in WPA 13194 of 2019 by order dated February 8, 2024 as corrected on February 20, 2024 allowed prayers, similar to the instant writ petition.

4.

It is, therefore, ordered that the petitioner shall be entitled to "A" category pay scale with effect from 2006 and as decided by the Division bench and this Court.

5.

Copies of the aforesaid order are kept with the record.

6.

Reliance is also placed by the learned Counsel for the petitioner on an order of a Co-ordinate Bench of this Court dated January 6, 2023 passed in WPA 5801 of 2022, in support of the arguments that the petitioner is entitled to such "A" category pay scale with effect from 2006.

7.

Let arrears of salary be paid to the petitioners within two months from date and the recruitment benefit of the petitioners be released after grant of "A" category scale within three months thereafter.

8.

With the aforesaid observations, the instant writ petition shall stand disposed of.

9.

There will be no order as to costs.

10.

All parties are directed to act on a server copy of this order duly downloaded from the official website of this Court.

(RAJASEKHAR MANTHA, J.)