ORDER :

Abbreviations

• Second National Judicial Pay Commission -SNJPC

• First National Judicial Pay Commission -FNJPC

• Seventh Central Pay Commission -VIIth CPC

• Index of Rationalisation -IoR

1. Delay condoned.

2. Applications for listing the review petitions in open Court are rejected.

3. By its order dated 27 July 2022 in “All India Judges Association v. Union of India, W.P. (C) No. 643/2015, this Court held as follows :

“15. One of the main objections to the revision of pay structure as proposed by SNJPC, is the application of the multiplier of 2.81 and above. But this objection has already been taken by some of the States and is liable to be rejected for the two reasons, namely, (i) that the 7th Central Pay Commission has applied a multiplier of 2.81 in respect of certain categories of All India Service Officers; and (ii) that Justice Padmanabhan Committee actually applied a multiplier of 3.07.

16. As a matter of fact, SNJPC, before making its recommendations, considered three modules, i.e., (1) Master Pay Scale Method; (2) Pay Matrix Method; and (3) Fixed Pay Method. After examining the advantages and disadvantages of all the three modules, the SNJPC has adopted Pay Matrix Method, a