The applicants, who are presently working as

Assistant Accounts Officers, appeared in the Combined

Graduate Level Examination, 2003 conducted by the Staff

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Selection Commission and declared successful vide the result

published in April, 2004. They joined the offices of

respondent No.3 between May and September, 2004 on the

posts they had applied for. The New Pension Scheme was

implemented with effect from 01.01.2004 and they were

covered under this Scheme. In 2020, they came to know

about the decisions of various Courts including this Tribunal

granting

relief

to

the

similarly

situated

employees.

Accordingly, they made representations to the respondent

No.3 for grant of benefit under Old Pension Scheme, but to

no avail. The applicants filed O.A. No. 270/2021, which was

disposed off vide order dated 08.02.2021, with a direction to

the respondents to pass reasoned and speaking order on the

pending representations of the applicants, duly keeping into

account the extant policy directives and the judgments

mentioned in their representations within a period of 12

weeks. However, the respondents vide the impugned order

dated 17.05.2021 and others denied their claim.

2.

By filing this O.