What Para 27 of the Supreme Court
Order dated 31/3/2016 states
“Keeping in view the totality of facts and circumstances of the case, it is hereby directed that the Corporation shall pay 40% as per Para 3A of the Appendix to each of the employees within six weeks and shall file an affidavit before the High Court of Delhi to the said effect……….”.
What Para 3A of
Appendix IV states
3(A) In case of employees who have retired or died on or after the 1st
day of August 1997, the dearness relief shall be payable for every rise or to
be recoverable for every fall, as the case may be, of every 4 points over 1740
points in the quarterly Average Consumer Price Index for Industrial Workers in the
series of 1960 = 100 Such increase or decrease in dearness relief for every
said 4 points shall be at the rate of 0.23 per cent of the Basic Pension;
What items (b) &
(c) of Annexure to letter dated 13/4/2016 by ED (P) to ED (IT) state:
(b) For the purpose, the basic pension /family pension payable shall be revised by merging the Dearness Relief payable as on
1/8/1997, and,
(c) On the pension so upgraded,
Dearness Relief of 0.23% of basic pension is to be calculated for every 4 point
rise or fall of AICPI from 1740 points.
Why the method of calculation as per
(b) & (c) is incorrect?
The Basic Pension stated
in para 3A applicable to the pensioner
will not be the same as the revised Basic Pension calculated as per (b) above as the former
carries a weightage provided in wage revision w e f 1/8/1997 while the latter
does not provide for such weightage. In other words, the basic pension arrived at as per (b) above cannot be taken
for calculation of interim relief as per para 3A above.
Consequently (c) is
not correct as there is no upgradation, and it is erroneous to calculate
applying 0.23% of the wrong (lesser) basic pension which will result in
underpayment of interim relief to the eligible pensioners.
For the same reason
the payment made under this method will
be in contravention of the Supreme Court order dated 31/3/2016 and will
attract charge of contempt of court .
CH MAHADEVAN