ORAL ORDER

(As per Hon’ble Dr. Lata Baswaraj Patne, Judicial Member)

By this Original Application, the applicants are seeking the following relief(s):

“This Hon'ble Tribunal may be pleased to direct the Respondents to i) to, grant another increment, notional increment, due for all the Applicants, who retired on 30th June/31st December of any particular year, which would be payable on the 1st of the next month of their respective dates of retirement;

ii) to revise the pensions of all the Applicants, and to pay their respective arrears at the earliest; and iii) to pass such other such relief/reliefs, which the Hon'ble Tribunal deems fit in the circumstances of the case.”

3. When the matter is taken up for consideration, the learned counsel for applicants submits that, as per the relief prayed for by the applicants, the issue is no more res-integra and is fully covered by the judgement of the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India in Director, KPTCL & others vs. C. P. Mundinamani & others. The learned counsel for the applicants further relied upon the order passed by this Tribunal in OA/187/2020 dated 21.11.2023 wherein the respondents are directed to grant the benefit of one notional increment to