Friends,
Our leaders have demanded for something lesser and the same has been now agreed as a final solution. Here I mean the ONE INCREMENT for posts lying in the same Grade pay but are Feeder & Promotional post to each other.
The fact which was failed to be noted is that When a person for example, remains in Rs.4200/- Grade pay (I think this situation prevails in merged scales of 5000-5500-6500), he is able to achieve the 3% Increment Plus Next Immediate Higher Grade pay On MACP itself. Pl. note: MACP is a fall back Option (Which is the substitute option as a last resort) which itself guarantees 3% Increment & Next Immediate Grade pay. A substitute option (Last resort) is able to guarantee these benefits. What is guaranteed by MACP is not in place in actual promotion. ABSOLUTELY IRRATIONAL and UNREASONABLE and NOT JUSTIFIED.
Similar situation and grant of one increment is already in place in Auditors (AT SENIOR LEVEL) case where two posts - feeder and Promotional post remain in two different pay bands like PB2 Rs,9300 with Rs.5400 Grade pay & PB3 Rs.15600 with Rs.5400 Gpay. In this case, MACP also takes both pay bands as different for grant of MACP. In this case, both MACP and Promotion benefit remain equal. Here, atleast the fixation will be at minimum of Rs.15600/- if the person promoted has basic pay lesser than Rs.15600/- But, the same cannot be the case with regard to merged scales of Rs.5000-6500 because promotion benefit falls short of MACP benefit.
When separate identity of posts are to be maintained, then grade pay should also be different for the feeder and promotional post.
Anyhow, I have cited this MACP point in my OA pending in CAT. The next hearing will be on 23.7.2012. No reply/counter so far from the Department side. The argument has to be - what is achievable by MACP is not achieved even on promotion? This itself will take care of the case and cause.
Bye for now.
Ramnath
