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| PIL seeking fixation of working days, hours in Govt offices | | HC declines to issue order | | | Jammu, Mar 29: In a Public Interest Litigation filed by Advocate Rajeswari Katoch seeking that total working period in a week should be six days and six hours of a working day for all government offices. A further prayer has been made to reduce the number of holidays to ensure that public servants are available for public service for maximum days in a year. A prayer has also been made to reduce the difference between minimum and maximum pay bands for government servants and to administer oath to all public servants joining public services at par with one administered to the armed forces personnel. Division Bench of State High Court comprising Chief Justice MM Kumar and Justice Muzaffar Hussain Attar after hearing petitioner in person and are of the considered view that the whole gamut of fixing the working hours involves inputs from various employees' organizations and public spirited persons and in all offices the working hours have been fixed accordingly. Likewise the list of holidays in government offices, Universities, Colleges and Judicial institutions have been fixed by taking into consideration numerous factors, local conditions, weather conditions and other things. The pay bands are also based on the recommendations made by the Pay Commission which again result from huge assistance provided by numerous bodies of employees, public spirited persons and others. Therefore, "we are not inclined to entertain this petition because it seems to us that all that has been said has already been taken into consideration by various bodies fixing the working hours, working days, providing holidays and fixing the pay bands. Likewise the idea of administering oath to public servants must have been taken into account by various bodies dealing with finalizing the service conditions of all such employees". Division Bench declined to pass any orders or directions on such a petition because the public interest has already been taken care of by the bodies at the helm of affairs in respect of all the aforesaid matters and dismissed the PIL. (JNF) |
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