Supreme Court of India

Punjab State Power Corporation Limited & Anr. v. Bal Krishan Sharma & Ors.

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Reported as [2021] 7 S.C.R. 547
Bench Uday Umesh Lalit and Bela M. Trivedi JJ.
Decided 23 November 2021

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What the Court ordered

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

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