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Civil service----- Allowance--Entitlement---Civil servants working in power house as A.C. Supervisor lift attendant, upholster, crane slinger and rigger, were being paid allowance called 'generation allowance' ever since their appointments in the power house---Such allowance, later on, was stopped on audit objection that civil servants were not entitled to "generation allowance" as they were not included in generation cadre---As per policy document of Authority generation allowance was payable to technical employees of power stations and generation cadre duly formed by Authority included among others Instruments Supervisors and attendants of all grades---One of the civil servants who was A.C. Supervisor and his duty was to look after Air-­Conditioner Plant and other relating instruments, was entitled to generation allowance as according to policy document he was included in generation cadre---Held, as attendants of all grades were included in generation cadre and were being paid generation allowance, other civil servants who were lift attendant, upholster, crane slinger and rigger, were attendants like other attendants and could not be deprived of generation allowance---Categories to which civil servants belonged were equally playing vital role in generation, their exclusion from generation cadre and depriving them from payment of generation allowance which they were being paid from the very beginning, not only was illogical and discriminatory, but also was a source of deprivation and frustration for civil servants---Order stopping generation allowance to civil servants was set aside directing Authority to restore same to civil servants from the date it was stopped. F.E. Siddiqui for Appellant. Syed Kazim Hussain Kazmi alongwith Muhammad Shoaib, Deputy Director (Admin.), Hydel Power, WAPDA, Tarbela for Respondents. Date of hearing: 22nd March, 1997. JUDGMENT AFTAB AHMED (MEMBER). ---These five appeals involve common questions of law and facts and therefore are proposed to be disposed of by this single judgment. 2. All the five appellants are employees of WAPDA and are presently working in Power House at Tarbela in different capacities. Naeem Akhtar is A.C.…

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