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Item No. 1 O.A. No. 2474/2015

Central Administrative Tribunal

Principal Bench, New Delhi

O.A. No. 2474/2015

This the 20^th day of January, 2023

Hon’ble Mr. R. N. Singh, Member (J)

Hon’ble Mr. Tarun Shridhar, Member (A)

1.

Shri Manoj Kumar, aged 51 Yrs

S/o Late Shri R. S. Srivastava

Working as Junior Hindi Translator

Ordnance Factory

Muradnagar

2.

Shri Sandeep Datta, aged 4I Yrs

S/o Shri G. K. Datta

Working as Junior Hindi Translator

Ordnance Factory

Muradnagar

3.

Shri Siddh Nath Rai, aged 39 Yrs

S/o Shri K. S. Rai

Working as Junior Hindi Translator

Field Gun Factory

Kanpur

4.

Smt Mallika Dwivedi, aged 41 Yrs

W/o Shri A. P. Dwivedi

Working as Junior Hindi Translator

E-85, Armapur Estate,

Kanpur

5. Shri Tarun Kumar Kulshrestha, aged 39 Yrs

S/o Shri R. B. Lal Kulshrestha

Working as Junior Hindi Translator

E- 60, Armapur Estate,

Kanpur

6.

Shri Narain Singh, aged 59 Yrs

S/o Shri Duli Chandra

Working as Junior Hindi Translator

Ordnace Factory,

Kanpur

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Shri Vijaykar Mishra, aged 45 Yrs

S/o Shri Sirtaj Mishra

Working as Junior Hindi Translator

Ordnance Factory, Kanpur

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Shri Harish Prakash Gupta, aged 51 Yrs

S/o Late Shri R. A. Gupta

Working as Junior Hindi Translator

Ordnance Equipment Factory, Kanpur

...APPLICANTS

(through Advocate: Mr. Shivanshu Bhardwaj with

Mr. Rajiv Singh)

VERSUS

1.

Union of India

Through Secretary (Defence),

Ministry of Defence,

South Block, New Delhi.

2.

Department of Official Language

Ministry of Home Affairs

NDCC II (New Delhi City Centre) Bhawan

‘B' Wing, Fourth Floor, Jai Singh Road

New Delhi - 110001

3. The Secretary

Ordnance Factory Board,

Ayudh Bhawan

10-A, S.K. Bose Road

Kolkata - 700001

...RESPONDENTS

(through Advocate: Mr. V. S. R. Krishna with

Mr. V. Shashank Kumar)

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ORDER (Oral)

Hon’ble Mr. Tarun Shridhar, Member (A)

The applicants, who are working as Junior Hindi

Translators (J.H.T.) in the Department of Official Language

are aggrieved that their bona fide claim for grant of pay

scales

at parity with their

counterparts

in Central

Secretariat Official Language Services (C.S.O.L.S.) cadre has

been denied.

2.

Aggrieved by the rejection of their claim, they have

preferred the present O.A. seeking the following relief(s):

Tribunal deem fit in the interest of justice.”

3.

Brief facts of the case are that the applicants were

appointed as Junior Hindi Translators during the years 1993

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to 2001 in the Ordnance Factories of the then Ordnance

Factory Board (OFB). Pursuant to the recommendations of

the Fifth Pay Commission, the Pay Scales of the Central

Government

employees

including

the

Junior

Hindi

Translators were revised. However, the revision was not the

same in respect of the Junior Hindi Translators posted in

different subordinate/attached offices of the Government of

India.

4.

While

the

officials

posted

as

Junior

Hindi

Translators borne on the C.S.O.L.S. were given a higher pay

scale of Rs. 5500-9000, their counterpart Junior Hindi

Translators in subordinate/attached offices of the ministries,

as also the autonomous bodies were placed in the pay scale

of 5000-8000. The applicants term this as discriminatory as

the qualifications for holding this post as also the work

performed by them are identical.

5.

The