CENTRAL ADMINISTRATIVE TRIBUNAL PRINCIPAL BENCH: NEW DELHI O.A. No. 3986/2023 This the 01^ST day of December, 2025 Hon’ble Dr. Chhabilendra Roul, Member (A)

1. PADMA RANI CHAWLA (aged about 65 years)

W/o Sh. K.K. Chawla Retired as PRT (Group - B)

R/o 62, PNB Enclave, Shimla Road, Majra, Dehradun-248171 (Uttrakhand).

2. SHASHI MANRAL (aged about 68 years)

D/o Sh. K.S. Manral, Retired as TGT (Group - B), R/o 2, Vanasthali, Ballupur, Dehradun-248001 (Uttrakhand).

3. RANJANA THAKUR (aged about 66 years)

D/o R.P.S. Thakur, Retired as Headmistress (Group - B), R/o 1A, Laxmi Road, Dalanwala, Dehradun - 248001 (Uttrakhand).

4. TANVIR FATIMA (aged about 65 years)

D/o Late Talib Hussain Retired as TGT (S. Science: Group - B), R/o Jaliwala Imambara, Mohalla-Majapota, Amroha - 244221 (U.P.)

5. BANDI RAMACHANDRA REDDY (aged about 76 years)

S/o Bandi Gurivi Reddy, Retired as Vice Principal (Group - A), R/o F-806, Vertex Sadguru Krupa, Nizampet Road (Opp. ICICI Bank), Hyderabad-500085.

... Applicants (By Advocate : Mr. Santosh Kumar Sahu with Dr. Amar Nath Gupta)

DAYAWAT Versus

1 KENDRIYA VIDYALAYA SANGATHAN, Through its Commissioner, 18, Institutional Area, Shaheed Jeet Singh Marg, New Delhi-110016 [Email commissioner-kvs@gov.in]

2 THE JOINT COMMISSIONER (ADMIN), Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan, 18, Institutional Area, Shaheed Jeet Singh Marg, New Delhi-110 016.

[Email: kvs.jcadmn@gmail.com]

3. THE SECRETARY, Department of School Education & Literacy, Ministry of Education, Shastri Bhawan, Dr. Rajendra Prasad Road, Central Secretariat, New Delhi-110 001.

[Email secy.sel@nic.in]

…Respondents (By Advocate: Mr. S.N. Verma)

DAYAWAT

ORDER (ORAL)

By Hon’ble Dr. Chhabilendra Roul, Member (A):-

Present OA has been filed by the applicants under Section 19 of the Administrative Tribunals Act 1985, seeking the following reliefs:-

“(i) Quash and set aside the following impugned Memorandums/Rejection Letters issued by the respondents in respect of the applicants denying the benefit of GPF/Pension Scheme:

a. KVS Regional Office response dated 10.05.2022 Memorandum F.No. 110125/2021/201/Ms. P. Rani Chawla, Retd. PRT/CC/KVS-PF/11 dated 13/25.04.2022 to the Legal Notice dated 21.05.2018; b. KVS Regional Office response dated 10.05.2022 Memorandum F.No. 110125/2021/201/Ms. Shashi Manral, Retd. TGT/CC/KVS-PF/22 dated 22/25.04.2022 to the Legal Notice dated 21.05.2018; c. KVS Regional Office response dated 10.05.2022 Memorandum F.No. 110125/2021/201/Ms. Ranjana Thakur, Retd. HM/CC/KVS-PF/23 dated 22/25.04.2022 to the Legal Notice dated 21.05.2018; d. KVS F.No. 110125//2019/K.V.S/CPF to GPF/515 dated 13/24.05/2019 in respect of the applicant no.4's Request Letter dated 24.04.2019;

e. KVS F.No. 110125/2015/KVS/CPF to GPF/GR.KVS/2268 dated 15.03.2016 in respect of the applicant no.5's Request Letter dated

26.02.2016;

(ii) Pass an order declaring to the effect that the whole action/inaction of the respondents in not accepting the request/representations of the DAYAWAT applicants for considering them to have 'automatically come-over' to the GPF/Pension Scheme as arbitrary, unfair and illegal, being discriminatory and contrary to the words and spirit of the well-

reasoned judicial pronouncements in similar cases;

(iii) Pass an appropriate order/direction declaring the applicants to have 'automatically come-over' to the GPF/Pension Scheme w.e.f. 01.01.1986 in compliance of the provisions of the KVS Office Memorandum F.No.152-1/79- 80/KVS/Budget/Part.II dated 01.09.1988, they (the applicants) having not exercised option for their continuance in the CPF Scheme during the KVS prescribed period i.e., 01.09.1988 to 31.01.1989;

(iv) Consequent to the above clauses (i) and (ii), hold and declare that the Applicants are entitled for pension and all other retirement benefits as admissible to the similarly placed teachers/employees of KVS under the CCS (Pension)

Rules, 1972;

(v) Pass an appropriate order / direction directing the respondents to process the pension files/documents of the applicants within a speci