Read the following:
1. G.O.Ms.No. 173,
Finance (P.C.) Department, dated 13th June, 1969.
2. G.O.Ms.No. 146,
Finance Department, dated 22nd June, 1981.
3. G.O.Ms.No. 190,
Finance (Courts) Department, dated 10 June, 1983.
4. Circular Memo.
No. 28395/406/PC.l/83, dt. 15th November, 1983.
5. From the E.O.TTD
Lr. No. E4/46438/83, dated 11th November, 1983.
Orders were issued in the G.O. first read above, introducing the selection grade scales of pay up to and inclusive of Gr XX in Andhra Pradesh Revised pay Scales 1969. According to the above orders, a person appointed to the Selection Grade shall draw the minimum of the scale provided that if a Senior in a higher promotion category is drawing less than such minimum, then his pay shall be limited to the pay drawn by the Senior in the higher post. It was also ordered therein that appointment to Selection Grade posts should be restricted to the persons in the grade who were actually working in the category in which they were being considered for appointment Lo the selection Grade. As a result, the employees who were on promotion to higher posts with a lien on a lower post were not considered for appointment to Selection Grade in the lower category. The restriction of limiting the pay to that of the Senior was questioned in the High Court· and the High Court struck down the said Rule 5 (2). The Supreme Court also upheld the decision of High Court and orders accordingly were issued in the G.O. second read above deleting sub-rule (2) of rule 5 of the Andhra Pradesh Revised pay scale, 1969. With the removal of the restriction the persons appointed to the Selection Grade posts became eligible to draw the minimum of the Selection Grade scale which, in some cases, happens to be more than the minimum of the higher promotion posts.
2. Persons who were on promotion to higher posts and who were not considered for selection Grade have again questioned these orders and on a direction by the Supreme Court, orders were issued in the G.O. third read above to the effect that such of the Seniors who were on promotion to the next higher post in the regular line on the date on which their Juniors were appointed to the Selection Grade will be entitled to get their pay fixed in the Selection Grade notionally and on the basis of this notional Selection Grade pay their pay shall be fixed in the higher post from the date the Selection Grade became applicable to them provided they held their lien on the post in the lower category on the date on which the Junior got the Selection Grade and if the ,Senior was confirmed in the higher post on the date his junior got the selection grade he cannot be considered for appointment to selection Grade in the lower post. This order has caused according to representation received some hardship to the Seniors who were confirmed in the higher posts soon after their completion of probation.
3. Government have carefully examined the issue and hereby order that the pay of a senior who might have been confirmed in a higher post and who happens to draw less pay than his junior whose pay has been refixed in the higher officiating post consequent on appointment to Selection Grade in the lower post, be stepped up to a stage equal to the pay drawn by the Junior under F.R. 27, in the higher officiating post identical to the one held by his senior, from the date of pay of the senior become less than the pay of the junior as a result of refixation of pay in the higher officiating post by virtue of orders issued in the G.O. 3rd read above, subject to condition that such disparity is the direct result of application of the orders 3rd read above.
4. The monetary
benefit shall however, be allowed from the date of issue of these orders only.
