THE HON’BLE THE CHIEF JUSTICE SRI APARESH KUMAR SINGH AND THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE G.M. MOHIUDDIN WRIT PETITION No.29387 OF 2025

ORDER:

This Writ Petition assails the order dated 12.02.2024 passed by the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT), Hyderabad, in O.A.No.21/1485/2015, whereby the Tribunal dismissed the Original Application filed by the late husband of the petitioner. The husband of the petitioner had filed the subject O.A. seeking a direction to the respondents to grant him one more opportunity to switch over from the Contributory Provident Fund (CPF) Scheme to the General Provident Fund-

cum-Pension (GPF-cum-Pension) Scheme.

2. Heard Sri T.P.Acharya, learned counsel for the petitioner; Sri A.Kranti Kumar Reddy, learned counsel for respondent Nos.1 to 3 and Sri Ajay Kumar Kulkarni and learned counsel for respondent No.4.

Factual Matrix (in brief)

3. The factual background, necessary for the adjudication of the present writ petition, is as follows:

i) Late T. Vijaya Kumar (husband of the writ petitioner) was appointed as a Post Graduate Teacher in Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan (KVS) on 05.08.1985 and was initially governed by the CPF Scheme;

ii) Following the Fourth Central Pay Com