Dhiraj Kumar Singh And ORS. v. State Of West Bengal And ORS.

Item No.09 In the High Court At Calcutta Constitutional Writ Jurisdiction Appellate Side 19.07.2024 Ct-14 AGM WPA 16023 of 2024 Dhiraj Kumar Singh & Ors.

v.

The State of West Bengal & Ors.

Mr. Ekramul Bari.

Syed Mansur Ali.

... for the petitioners.

Mr. Arindam Chattopadhyay.

Ms. Lipika Chatterjee.

... for the State.

Mr. B.P. Vaisya.

Mr. Nilay Kumar Mondal ...For the DPSC Kolkata.

The petitioners are aggrieved by the action on the part of DPSC Kolkata in allowing 'A' category scale of pay to them on and from a later date but not from the next date of conclusion of the examination for obtaining training.

The petitioners have filed a supplementary affidavit in support of the submission that they completed the Diploma in Elementary Education Course from the National Institute of Open Schooling in the session 2017-2019 on 31st March, 2019.

It has been submitted that the 'A' category scale of pay ought to be allowed in their favour on and from the next date of conclusion of the examination and not from a later date.

Reliance has been placed on the order dated 8th April, 2024 passed by a coordinate Bench of this Court in WPA 28842 of 2023 wherein the Court directed the authority to grant 'A' category scale of pay to the petitioners after the last date of examination. In view of the above, the instant writ petition is disposed of by directing the respondent authorities to pay 'A' category scale of pay to the petitioners on and from the next date of conclusion of their training examination.

All arrears of the petitioners shall be positively disbursed within a period of eight weeks from the date of communication of this order.

The writ petition stands disposed of.

Urgent certified photocopy of this order, if applied for, be supplied to the parties expeditiously on compliance of usual legal formalities.

(Amrita Sinha, J.)