ORDER

Per: Justice M.G. Sewlikar, Member (J)

By this application, the applicants are seeking the relief of appointment of the applicants as Regular Postal Assistants / Sorting Assistants from their respective dates the applicants have started working as Reserved Trained Pool staff and direction to the respondents for granting them the benefits like seniority, pay fixation, financial upgradations and pension fixations.

2. Facts leading to this application are that applicant nos. 1, 2, 5, 10, 12, 14, 17, 18 and 19 are working as Postal Assistants / Sorting Assistants in different units under administrative control and jurisdiction of the respondents. Applicant nos. 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 13, 15, 16, 20, 21 & 22 have already retired on superannuation.

3. The respondents had floated a scheme in the year 1980 called as Reserve Trained Pool (RTP) Postal Assistant / Sorting Assistant. Pursuant to this scheme, all the applicants were appointed on various dates from 1982 to 1986. This scheme was abandoned in the year 1986. However, some of the applicants continued to work as RTP even after 1986.

4. The notification / advertisement was published in Daily Tarun Bharat in the year 1983 (Annexure A-2