Supreme Court of India
Y.K. Mehta and Ors. v. Union of India & Anr.
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What the Court ordered
We hold that having regard to the service conditions of the Staff Artists of Doordarshan and in view of the said decision, the Staff I' Artists of Doordarshan including the petitioners are Government servants.
Judgment, page 5
From the headnote
Central Civil Services (Classification, Control and Appeal) Rules, 1966: Doordarshan-Staff Artists-Whether Government Servants Whether entitled to parity in pay with their counterparts in Film Divi sion of Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. Constitution of India, Articles 14, 16, 37 & 39(d): Equal pay for equal work-Two posts under two different wings of the same Ministry-Identical and involving performance of same nature of duties-Unreasonable and unjust to discriminate in the matter of pay. The Government by an order dated March 9, 1979 revised the fee scales- of certain categories
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