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Previous service as a contract employee will be taken into account for pension - Supreme Court
The Supreme Court has recently said in one of its important decisions in the case of Himachal Pradesh that the service rendered as a contract worker will be taken into account for pension. The Himachal Pradesh High Court had ordered the past service as a contract employee to be taken into account for pension.
The Supreme Court has recently said in one of its important decisions in the case of Himachal Pradesh that the service rendered as a contract worker will be taken into account for pension.
The court, interpreting the rules and regulations, directed the Himachal Pradesh government to give an opportunity to the contractual employees who were regularized in the job to exercise the option as per the rules and after completing the whole process in four months, the pension of such employees of the Education and Ayurvedic Department or Family pension as the case may be, issue orders.
A bench of Justices S. Ravindra Bhat and Arvind Kumar gave the order on August 7 while dismissing the Himachal Pradesh government's petition against the High Court order and disposing of several other petitions. The Himachal Pradesh High Court had ordered the past service as a contract employee to be taken into account for pension. The name of the case in the Supreme Court was State of Himachal Pradesh and others Vs. Sheela Devi.
Challenging the High Court's decision, the Himachal Pradesh government had argued on the basis of Rule 2 (g) of the CCS Pension Rules, 1972 that contractual employees have been kept out of the purview of pension rules. The government's submission was that Rule 17 which allows for the period of service as a contract employee to be taken into account for computing pension would not be applicable because of the exclusion clause in Rule 2(g).
