Supreme Court of India
Punjab State Power Corporation Limited & Anr. v. Bal Krishan Sharma & Ors.
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In view of the above, it was made clear by this court that an employee could be said to be suffering from stagnation as per the office order dated 23.04.1990 only if he possessed the requisite qualification for the next higher post and was unable to get the higher post on account of non availability of such post.
Judgment, page 17
From the headnote
Punjab State Electricity Board Service of Engineers (Civil) Recruitment Regulations, 1965: Time bound benefit – PSEB pas sed an office order on 19.07.1989 for regular employees introducin g a scheme to allow a time bound benefit of higher scal e on their completion of 9/16 years of services – On 29.03.1991, another office order was passed upgrading 20% of the cadre posts o f Junior Engineer-II (Civil) in the scale of Rs.1640/3200 (revised) t o that of Junior Engineer-I (Civil) in the scale of 1800/3500 w.e.f. 01.0 1.1986 – Thereafter, in continuation, consolidation and su persession of orders
Authorities it was built on
- 1974 Mohammad Shujat Ali & Ors. Etc. v. Union of India & Ors. Etc.
- 2010 Bhakra Beas Management Board v. Krishan Kumar Vij & Anr.
- 2001 The Meghalaya State Electricity Board and Anr. v. Shri Jagadindra Arjun
- 2007 Sohan Singh Sodhi v. Punjab State Electricity Board, Patiala
- 2008 Punjab State Electricity Board & Ors. v. Gurmail Singh
- 1972 State of Haryana Etc. Etc. v. Shamsher Jang Bahadur Etc. Etc.
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