Case Details

Citation(s)
1998 SLG 1437 1998 SLD 1437 1998 PLC 661
Service Tribunal, Punjab
Appeal No. 333 of 1995, decision dated: 30-07-1996
SAFDAR HUSSAIN SHAH, JAFRI, MEMBER-I

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ABDUL AHAD and 3 others

VS

SECRETARY TO GOVERNMENT OF PUNJAB, FINANCE DEPARTMENT, LAHORE and 2 others

Law:

Section:

Civil service------- Selection Grade---Grant of---Civil servant working as Oriental Teacher, was denied Selection Grade in BS-17 on ground that BS-15 only had been allowed to Oriental Teachers on acquiring higher academic qualification of B.A. in North-West Frontier Province while pay scales of civil servants in Punjab Province were equivalent to those allowed by Azad Jammu and Kashmir Government---Civil servant had been discriminated against as similar Oriental Teacher in Province Sindh had been granted Selection Grade in BS-17---Poor treatment towards Oriental Teacher in North-West Frontier Province, Balochistan or in Azad Jammu and Kashmir, would not justify similar maltreatment in Province of Punjab which was biggest Province and rich in men and material---Province of Punjab must set example as everyone else among Provinces looked towards Punjab for guidance---It should have brought its pay structure at par with Province of Sindh---Denial of Selection Grade in BP-17 to civil servants which was due to them, could hardly be justified particularly when B.A. with Honours Degree in oriental languages could not, in any case, be down-rated compared with degree of B.A. or B.Sc. obtained otherwise---Accepting appeal of civil servants, Authority was directed to grant civil servants Selection Grade in BS-17 accordingly. M.A. Riaz for Appellants. Manzoor Hussain Bhatti. District Attorney for Respondents Date of hearing: 30th July, 1996 JUDGMENT The appellants M/s. Abdul Ahad, Muhammad Aziz, Maqsood-ul-­Hassan Gohar and Syed Mohsan Ali Naqvi, Oriental Teachers of various Government High Schools at Lahore assailed, through the instant appeal, the advice/decision of the Finance Department contained in their U.O. Letter No. FD (PC)19-5/77 (Pt.IV), dated 18-10-1994 (Annexure C/1 - page 15) whereby the said department (i.e. respondent No. 1) had regretted their inability to grant Selection Grade to BS-17 to the Oriental Teachers on the ground that BS-15 only had been allowed to such teachers on acquiring higher academic qualification of B.A. in N.-W.F.P. while the pay scales of the Teachers (i.e. the appellants) in Punjab were equivalent to those allowed by Azad Jammu and…
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