CENTRAL ADMINISTRATIVE TRIBUNAL BANGALORE BENCH, BENGALURU ORIGINAL APPLICATION NO.170/01660/2018 ORDER RESERVED ON 26.11.2025 DATE OF ORDER: 03.12.2025 CORAM:

HON’BLE MRS. JUSTICE S. SUJATHA, MEMBER (J)

HON’BLE DR. SANJIV KUMAR, MEMBER (A)

M. Vijaya Kamath, Age 56 years, W/o Late Sri C. N. Ramachandra, Station Director No. 35, 9th 'D' Main, Byraveswarnagar, Bangalore - 560 072 .... Applicant (By Shri P. Sreedhara, Advocate)

Vs.

1. The Union of India, Represented by its Secretary, Ministry of I & B, 'A' Wing, Shastry Bhavan, New Delhi-110 001

2. The Chief Executive Officer, Prasar Bharati, Secretariat, Tower C Doordarshan Bhavan, Mandi House, New Delhi-110 001.

3. The Director General, All India Radio, Akashvani Bhavan, Parliament Street, New Delhi-110 001.

4. The Director General, Doordarshan, Doordarshan Bhavan, kavya shree k Copernicus Marg, New Delhi-110001.

5. The Head of Office, Doordarshan Kendra, Swamy Sivananda Salai, Chennai-600 005.

6. The Pay & Accounts Officer, Min. of I & B, IRLA, A Wing, Soochana Bhavan, Lodhi Road, New Delhi-110003. …Respondents (By Shri Vishnu Bhat, Senior Panel Counsel)

O R D E R

PER: JUSTICE S. SUJATHA, MEMBER (J)

This application is filed by the applicant under Section 19 of the Administrative Tribunals Act, 1985 seeking the following reliefs:

“a) Call for records leading to non-grant of 3rd MACP with grade pay of Rs. 7600/- after completion of 30 years of service by Sri C.N. Ramachandra, the husband of the Applicant with effect from 13.01.2013;

and b) Direct the Respondents to grant the 3rd MACP to Shri C.N. Ramachandra husband of the applicant with grade pay to Rs. 7600/- on par with Annexure A- 5 dated 24.07.2018 issued on 06.08.2018 and Annexure A-6 dated 17.09.2018 issued on 26.09.2018 and extend all other consequential financial benefits of arrears of pay & allowances, retirement benefits and revision of pension etc.

c) Pass any other order or direction that this Hon'ble Tribunal may deem fit and necessary in the facts and circumstances of the present case and in the interest of Justice and Equity.”

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2. Briefly stated the facts are that the applicant is the wife of late Shri C.N. Ramachandra who was appointed as Programme Executive of All India Radio with effect from 07.06.1984. He got promotion as Assistant Station Director on 23.02.1999 on ad-hoc basis and second ACP benefits were extended with effect from 07.06.2008 pursuant to the orders passed by this Tribunal in OA No. 140/2017 filed by the applicant. The applicant's husband expired on 11.07.2016 while in service. It is the grievance of the applicant that no third MACP benefits have been granted after completion of 30 years of service to the deceased employee on par with Shri S.H. Anjanappa, applicant in OA No. 836/2016 and Shri Anand V. Patil, applicant in OA No. 249/2017. Being aggrieved, the applicant has preferred this OA.

3. This OA was allowed by this Tribunal vide order dated 21.02.2019 observing that the benefit as available to the respondents in Writ Petition No. 50820/2018 may be made available to the applicant herein also. On the challenge made by the respondents before the Hon'ble High Court of Karnataka at Bengaluru in Writ Petition No. 8027/2020 (DD: 24.03.2021), Writ Petition has been allowed observing thus:

kavya shree k “5. Resultantly, the impugned order passed by the Tribunal is set aside. The Union of India shall be free to file a reply within a period of six weeks from the date of receipt of certified copy of this order and the parties to this petition shall appear before the Tribunal on 5.4.2021. It is needless to mention that in case the applicant before the Tribunal is not present, an appropriate notice shall be issued to the applicant and thereafter, the Tribunal shall dispose of the Original Application by passing an appropriate order on merits, that too, after taking into account the reply filed by the Union of India.

Writ petition stands allowed accordingly.”

4. Thereafter, detailed reply statement has been f