Tamil Nadu Asked About Gap In Salaries Of Government, Private Employees

"After implementation every pay commission recommendations, the gap between the government and private employees is widening," the Madras High Court bench noted.

MADURAI: The Madras High Court Monday asked the Tamil Nadu government why there was such a big gap in the salaries of employees of the government and private companies.
Hearing a petition relating to anomalies in the pay and the recent strike by government employees and teachers, a bench of Justices N Kirubakaran and SS Sundar said as they talk so much about their rights, they should also discharge their duties.

"After implementation every pay commission recommendations, the gap between the government and private employees is widening," the bench noted.

The judges said the work of government employees, including teachers, was as important as their demands.

Wondering why the children of government employees do not study in state-run schools, the judges asked why there should not be a rule to ensure that the children of government staff be put only in state-run schools.

Those who studied in private schools were seeking admission in government colleges, the bench said.

Counsel for Joint Action Council of Tamil Nadu Teachers Organisations and Government Employees Organisations (JACTO-GEO), which spearheaded the strike, submitted that though the government was given time to rectify the pay anomalies and several guidelines were issued, no action was taken.

The government counsel said 71 paise out of every rupee of the government's income was spent on its employees and teachers, and added the state administration was taking steps to bridge the pay gap.
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Chargesheets in Dabholkar, Pansare cases by next week

Mumbai, Feb 6  2019 The CBI and the Maharashtra CID told the Bombay High Court on Wednesday that they would file their supplementary charge sheets in the killings of rationalists Narendra Dabholkar and Govind Pansare by next week.

The CBI and the state CID are probing the killings of Dabholkar and Pansare, respectively.

CBI counsel Anil Singh told the bench that it had arrested and identified Sachin Andure and Sharad Kalaskar as the two persons who shot at Dabholkar, leading to his death.

Singh said the CBI will file the supplementary charge sheet against the two by February 13.

Ashok Mundargi, the counsel for CID's Special Investigation Team (SIT) that is probing Pansare's killing, also told the court that the agency was going to file its supplementary charge sheet against three more persons arrested in the case by February 12.

Mundargi said after the charge sheet, the CID will "concentrate" on arresting the absconding accused persons in the case.

A bench of justices S C Dharamadhikari and M S Karnik accepted the submissions, but said the court expected much more from the "premiere" probe agencies.

"By the next date, you must make some concrete efforts to arrest the absconding accused," the bench said.

The court particularly told the CBI that it was a "premiere" probe agency and the court as well as the whole world expected much from it.

"These are important cases and the whole world is interested in knowing the outcome of such cases. Today, because of the advent of the social media, the whole world is watching you. It wants to know what is happening in important incidents," it said.

"Because of social media, the world is watching what you are doing in important cases, including the incident in West Bengal," the bench said, while making a passing reference to the recent face-off between the CBI and Kolkata Police in the Saradha chit fund scam case.

Dabholkar was shot dead on August 20, 2013, in Pune while he was on his morning walk, while Pansare was shot at on February 16, 2015, in Kolhapur and he succumbed to his injuries on February 20.

The high court has been hearing pleas filed by the family members of Dabholkar and Pansare seeking a court- monitored probe in both cases.

News Courtesy: PTI