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Time of India

HC forms panel to address court employees' grievances

1 2 Buxar: The Patna high court on Saturday constituted a high-level committee to address the grievances of court employees across the state. Earlier this year, court employees went on strike, paralysing the functioning of lower courts throughout Bihar, demanding upgraded pay and promotional scales, time-bound promotions and appointments on compassionate grounds. President of the Bihar State Civil Court Employees' Association , Rajeshwar Tiwari, said on Saturday that the union had received a letter from the Patna high court in this regard. "A full-fledged committee, comprising Justice P B Bajanthri , Justice Rajiv Ranjan Prasad, Justice Parth Sarathy, the registrar general, registrar (administration), registrar (vigilance), the law secretary and finance secretary of the state govt, along with two office-bearers of the union, has been constituted to address the employees' grievances in the subordinate courts across the state," Tiwari said. He added that the standing committee of the Patna high court had recommended granting a graduate pay scale to court employees who hold a graduation qualification for the posts they occupy, as well as the implementation of the Shetty Commission report, which proposed one additional increment effective from April 1, 2003. Tiwari said almost all court employees are retiring without receiving any promotion or pay revision. Criticising the Patna high court's stance on compassionate appointments, he said, "In every judgeship, dependents of deceased employees are running from pillar to post for such appointments in the advent of the no-family-pension era, but the high court has taken a cruel stand on compassionate grounds." by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Google Brain Co-Founder Andrew Ng, Recommends: Read These 5 Books And Turn Your Life Around Blinkist: Andrew Ng's Reading List Undo Highlighting longstanding issues, Tiwari said, "Court employees have been working with bitter pay disparity and dwindling promotion opportunities for the last 20 years and deeper resentment has been prevailing among staff, who are working on multiple posts in the courts."