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CENTRAL ADMINISTRATIVE TRIBUNAL MUMBAI BENCH, CAMP AT NAGPUR ORIGINAL APPLICATION No.1070/2024 Dated this Tuesday the 20'* January, 2026 CORAM : HON’BLE SHRI UMESH GAJANKUSH, MEMBER (J) All India Class III & IV CBWE Employees Association, Office at North Ambazari Road, Near VNIT Gate, Nagpur - 440 033 Through its General Secretary, Email cbweclassempasso@gmail.com Ph No. 9890060830

2. Rajesh Kumar Mishra Age 50 years, Occu: Service, R/o B/4 S/1 Gourkhade Complex, Seminary Hills, Katol Road, Nagpur — 440 013.

Email-rajeshmisha962@gmail.com Ph No. 9890060830 -Applicants (By Advocate Ms. Gauri Venkatraman a/w Shri Yash Venkatraman) Versus

1. Union of India, Ministry of Labour & Employment, Shram Shakti Bhawan, Rafi Marg, New Delhi - 110 OO1, Through its Secretary.

2. Union of India Department of Expenditure, Ministry of Finance, Room No.76, New Delhi - 110 001, through its Secretary.

3. Dattopant Thengadi National Board for Workers Education and Development (Ministry of Labour Milan Jackson 8S85ssss= & Employment, Govt. of India) Through its Director, PUSA Employment Exchange Building, PUSA, New Delhi - 110 012. - Respondents (By Advocate Shri Chintan Deopujari)

ORDER

The applicants have filed this OA under Section 19 of the Administrative Tribunals Act, 1985 seeking the following reliefs:

“8(a) Quash and set aside the impugned orders dated 12.05.2023 and 24.05.2023 (annexed at Annexure No.1) holding the same to be arbitrarily and illegal and in violation of the applicable law and rules.

(b) Declare that the letter dated 01.11.2022 (annexed at Annexure No.6) issued by the respondent No.1 is illegal, without any force in law, and not binding upon the respondent No.3 Board or its employees.

(c)Direct the respondent No.3 to stop the illegal recoveries of NPLB/Ad-Hoc Bonuses already paid to the employees for the years 2014 to till date.

(d) Direct the respondent No.3 to refund with interest the amount illegal recovered from the employees in pursuance of the impugned orders at Annexure No.1. (e) Direct the respondent No.3 to start payment of NPLB/Ad- Hoc bonuses to the applicable employees in accordance with the service rules of the respondent No.3 and at par with the Central Government Employees as laid down in the said service rules.

(f) Any other relief deemed fit and proper in the facts and circumstances of the case be granted in the interest of justice.”

2. Brief facts of the case as stated in the OA are that the applicant No.l is the Union namely All India Class III & IV CBWE Employees Association recognized by the Government of India since 1972. The same has been affiliated to the National Organisation of Central Government Employees (NOCGE) and its affiliation number is 8151. The said Association has been created for the welfare of Class-III and IV Employees of the respondent No.3 i.e. Dattopant Thengadi National Board for Workers Education and Development (hereinafter referred to as ‘Board’.

2.1 It is stated that in the year 1983, the Central Government had started paying allowances to its Class-III and IV Employees under the nam of Non-Productivity Linked Bonuses (‘NPLB’) or Milan Jackson = Alphanso = Ad-Hoc Bonus. It is further submitted that vide various orders and Office Memorandums passed by the respondent No.2, Department of Expenditure, Ministry of Finance, these bonuses wer xtended to Central Autonomous Bodies which is clear from Office Memorandums dated 04.10.1988 and 12.10.1992. It is further stated that the Department of Finance in its order has categorically clarified that no funding or financial aid will be provided by the Central Government for payment of these bonuses. Thus, it was clear from the very beginning that payment of these bonuses was at the discretion of these Central autonomous bodies, who had their own service rules for regulating their employees. Acting on these Office