CENTRAL ADMINISTRATIVE TRIBUNAL

PRINCIPAL BENCH

OA No.-1467/2013

MA No.-1440/2014

MA No.-1279/2015

MA No.-2609/2015

MA No.-1801/2013

Order Reserved on: 03.09.2015

Order Pronounced on: 30.03.2016

Hon’ble Mr. Sudhir Kumar, Member (A)

Hon’ble Mr. Raj Vir Sharma, Member (J)

1. BSNL Officers’ Association (Regd.)

Through its General Secretary,

Subhash Chand Gaur

Office of the T15, Atul Grove Road,

New Delhi.

2. N. Kabeer Das JTO (O),

S/o N.Narayan,

Aged about 53 years

Office of SDE Udaan,

S/M Charminar, Hyderabad

Andhra Pradesh.

3. Vijay Bhende, JTO (O),

S/o Dattatray Bhende,

Aged about 52 years,

Office of SDE,

WTR, Bhopal (MP).

4. Sharad J. Lele,

JTO (O), Cable

Aged about 43 years

Office of SDE City Centre,

O/o GHTD BSNL Gwalior,

Sanchar Bhavan City Centre,

Madhya Pradesh-474011.

5. R. Adam, JTO (O), CSC

S/o Raj Mohammed,

Aged about 56 years,

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JTO (O) CSC,

O/o SDE Commercial,

Trinvanamalai,

Tamil Nadu-606601.

6. Vinay Prakash Srivastava,

JTO (O),

S/o late (Sh.) T.D. Srivastava,

Aged about 52 years, JTO (O),

CTSD, Lucknow, UP. (East)

7. P.S. Chunda, JTO (O),

S/o M.S. Chunda,

Aged about 49 years

Office of AGM (Sales),

C-56, Bhilwala, Rajasthan.

8. B.A. Rao, JTO (O)

S/o Ajit Kumar,

Aged about 45 years,

Office of EB-2 Cell,

Telephone Bhawan, Circle Office,

Ahmedabad, Gujarat.

9. Umesh K. Dokhale,

S/o late Keshav L. Dokhale,

CTTC, BSNL Indore (MP).

10. Sanchar Nigam Association of

Telecom Technical Assistants (SNATTA)

Represented trough Shri Nagesh Kumar,

Telecom Technical Assistant.

Having office at 1414, Section-8

Faridabad, Haryana-121006.

11. Shri Subhash,

S/o Shri Rohtas Singh,

192, Jeevan Nagar,

Near Maharani Bagh,

New Delhi-110014.

-Applicants

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(By Advocate Mrs. Rani Chhabra, for applicants 1-9 &

Shri Amit Gupta, for applicants 10 &11))

-Versus-

1. Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited,

A Government of India Enterprise,

Corporate Office

Through its Chairman-cum-Managing Director,

Corporate Office (Personnel),

4^th Section, 5^th Floor,

Bharat Sanchar Bhawan,

Janpath, New Delhi-110001.

2. Assistant General Manager

Personnel-4,

Corporate Office (Personnel),

4^th Section, 5^th Floor,

Bharat Sanchar Bhawan,

Janpath, New Delhi-110001.

-Respondents

(By Advocate : Shri Lalit Bhardwaj with Shri Randhir Beri and

Shri Amit Gupta).

O R D E R

Per Sudhir Kumar, Member (A):

This OA had been filed on 30.04.2013 by the Association and 8

individual applicants from all corners of the country naming two official

respondents, both belonging to the corporate entity named Bharat

Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL, in short). The matter came up before the

Bench on 06.05.2013, when short notices were ordered to be issued on

the point of Interim Relief. On the next date of hearing on 20.05.2013,

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the MA No.1137/2013 filed by the applicants for joining together had

been allowed under Rule 4(5) (a) (b) of CAT (Procedure) Rules, 1987.

2. In the meanwhile, MA No.1333/2013 had been filed on 16.05.2013

by certain non-parties, praying for their impleadment through learned

counsel Shri Amit Gupta, in which another Association, namely Sanchar

Nigam

Association

of

Telecom

Technical

Assistants

(SNATTA),

represented through Shri Nagesh Kumar, Telecom Technical Assistant

(TTA, in short), and one individual member of that Association, Shri

Subhash, had prayed for their being impleaded as petitioners in the OA.

Notices had been issued in that MA by the Bench on 20.05.2013. On

27.05.2013 this MA came to be allowed by the Bench that day.

3. At this stage, we may note here that though we are noting in the

cause-title of this order the eff