CENTRAL ADMINISTRATIVE TRIBUNAL PRINCIPAL BENCH, NEW DELHI Reserved on: 13.10.2025 Pronounced on:17.12.2025 Hon’ble Mr. R.N. Singh, Member (J)

Hon’ble Mr. B. Anand, Member (A)

Praveen Kumar (Superintendent)

S/o Late Sh K Rama R/o House No. 7371/19 1st floor, Gali No. 1 Prem Nagar, Beside Punjab Shoes Company, Shakti Nagar, (North Delhi), PO : Malka Ganj, District : North Delhi – 110007.

…Applicant (By Advocate: Ms. Alankriti Dwivedi)

VERSUS

1. Govt. of NCT of Delhi Through Chief Secretary Delhi Secretariat, I.P. Estate, New Delhi – 110002.

2. Department of Women and Child Development Govt. of NCT of Delhi Through Secretary

1st Floor, Maharana Pratap ISBT Complex, Kashmere Gate, New Delhi – 110006.

3. Department of Social Welfare Govt. of NCT of Delhi Through Secretary, 7th Floor, MSO Building, ITO, I.P Estate, New Delhi-110002.

…Respondents (By Advocate: Mr. Girish C. Jha)

ORDER Hon’ble Mr. B.Anand, Member (A):

By way of filing of this Original Application (O.A.)

under Section 19 of the Administrative Tribunals Act, 1985, the applicant seeks the following relief(s):-

“8.1. Direct Respondents to consider counting the service of the Applicant for the post of Superintendent from the year 2003 and pay all the necessary arrears and consequential benefits arising from 2003 alongwith interest;

8.2. Direct Respondents to provide financial upgradation consequential arising due to not counting of past service alongwith arrears and other consequential benefits;

8.3. Pass any other order/s in favour of Applicant and against the Respondents as this Hon’ble Tribunal may deem fit in the facts and circumstances of the case.”

2. However, during the course of the arguments, the applicant stated that he has since retired on 30.04.2024 and hence, he is seeking to modify the relief by restricting his prayer in the present O.A. to the extent that the applicant be considered for all the benefits, which include, financial upgradation, pension and other retiral benefits counting the service of the post of ‘Superintendent’ with effect from 13.12.2010, the date from which the applicant was promoted on ad hoc basis pursuant to the directions of this Tribunal.

3. The brief factual matrix of the case is that the applicant was initially recruited on 18.01.1998 as ‘Welfare Officer Grade-II’ in the department of Social Welfare in the pay scale of Rs. 5500-175-9000/- making him eligible for next promotion for the post of CDPO/Superintendent in the pay scale of Rs.9300-34800 plus Rs. 4600/ Grade Pay.

4. Meanwhile, consequent to the recommendations of the 5th Central Pay Commission (CPC), the post of ‘Welfare Officer Grade-II’ and the post of ‘Deputy Superintendent/ACDPO’ both came to carry the equal scale of pay i.e. Rs.5500-175-9000/-. The respondents recognizing that an anomaly has arisen consequent to the recommendations of the 5th CPC decided to merge both the posts of ‘Welfare Officer Grade-II’ (the post held by the applicant at that time) and ‘Deputy Superintendent/ACDPO’ vide their orders dated 19.10.2006. As a consequence of which 30 sanctioned posts of ‘Deputy Superintendent’ was ordered to be merged with the existing sanctioned strength of ‘Welfare Officers’ and an additional 05 sanctioned posts of ‘Assistant Child Development Project Officers (ACDPO) were ordered to be merged with existing sanctioned strength of ‘Supervisor (Women) Grade-I’. The net result of this exercise is that the immediate promotional post for the applicant holding the post of ‘Welfare Officer Grade-II/ACDPO’ became ‘CDPO/Superintendent’ in the pay scale of Rs. 9300- 34800/- plus Rs. 4600/- GP. The applicant claims that he was eligible to be promoted as ‘CDPO/Superintendent’ with effect from 08.01.2003 in as much as the amended Recruitment Rules dated28.11.2011 stipulated only five years service in the grade rendered after his initial appointment as ‘Welfare Officer Grade-II’ on regular basis. The applicant’s grievance is that the respondents failed to conduct a Departmental Promotion Committee (