28 Tuesday Mar 2017
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The Supreme Court ordered that 50% of service of the casual period should be counted for pension, after the worker is regularised. The judgment was delivered in an appeal filed by the Railway Department against the decision of the Central Administrative Tribunal that the full period of casual service should be counted for pension and other benefits, after the worker is regularised.
The judgment was delivered by the Bench consisting of Justice A.K.Sikri and Justice Ashok Bhushan.
27 Thursday Oct 2016
Posted in BSNLCCWF - Casual and Contract workers, General
An important judgment has been pronounced by the Supreme Court on ‘Equal Pay for Equal Work.” A Bench of Justices J.S.Khehar, and S.A.Bobde said the principle of equal pay for equal work constitutes a clear and unambiguous right vested in every employee, whether engaged on regular or temporary basis.
The Bench further said ” In our considered view, it is fallacious to determine artificial parameters to deny fruits of labour. An employee engaged for the same work, can not be paid less than another… Certainly not, in a welfare state.Such an action besides, demeaning, strikes at the very foundation of human dignity.”
The Bench continued:”Any act of paying less wages as compared to others similarly situated, constitutes an act of exploitative enslavement, emerging out of a domineering position. Undoubtedly, the action is oppressive, suppressive, and co-ersive as it compels involuntary subjugation.”
The judgement is establishing the right of the workers and their demand : Equal Pay for Equal Work”. This is a great judgment indeed!The government and the Management should implement. ( With inputs from “Times of India”, 27-10-2016)
10 Thursday Dec 2015
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| New Delhi, December 10: The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued the following statement:
The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) considers the latest ruling of the Supreme Court upholding minimum education qualifications as a prerequisite for candidates contesting panchayat polls in Haryana as being violative of the fundamental feature of universal suffrage guaranteed to all citizens of India by the Indian Constitution. Universal suffrage is not limited only to the right to vote. All those who have the right to vote also automatically have the right to contest. Such restrictions on the right to contest are against the spirit of the constitutional right of universal suffrage and the principle of equality before law. By setting such preconditions for contesting panchayat and local bodies elections, a large section of the rural poor have been excluded from their basic right to be elected representatives. At the beginning of the current winter session, the Indian Parliament reaffirmed its resolve to implement our Constitution and the Central government has declared a new observance every year of the Constitution Day on November 26. The PB of the CPI(M) considers that this present ruling should be reviewed by the full Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court. |
28 Friday Aug 2015
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New Delhi, Aug 28 The Supreme Court today asked the Centre to update its national policy that envisages state support to ensure financial and food security, health care, shelter and other needs of older persons across the country.
The social justice bench comrpising justices Madan B Lokur and U U Lalit said “national policy on old age homes is 15 year old. You need to update it. So much has happened since 1999.”
The court said that revisiting the 1999 NPOP has become necessary in the wake of the enactment of the Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act, 2007.
The National Policy on Older Persons (NPOP) envisages state support to ensure financial and food security, health care, shelter and other needs of older persons, equitable share in development, protection against abuse and exploitation and availability of services to improve the quality of their lives.
It also provides state support on issues like social security, inter-generational bonding, family as the primary caretaker, role of NGOs, training of manpower and research.
The court expressed dissatisfaction over the reply filed by the Social Justice and Empowerment Ministry and said that it had not disclosed the steps taken so far for setting up old age homes.
Earlier, the apex court had issued notice to the Centre on the PIL seeking setting up of old age homes with basic healthcare facilities in every district of the country. (PTI)
11 Tuesday Aug 2015
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Aadhar card will be optional for availing various welfare schemes of the government, the Supreme Court today said and ordered that no personal information of the holders of such cards shall be shared by any authority.
A three-judge bench, which in the forenoon referred to a larger Constitution Bench a batch of petitions challenging the Aadhar scheme and the issue whether right to privacy is a fundamental right, recorded the statement of Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi that “no personal information of Aadhar card shall be shared by any authority”.(Courtesy: PTI)
26 Tuesday May 2015
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The Supreme Court in an important judgment has stated that the right of compassionate appointment cannot be denied on the plea that some years have passed. This judgment was given by Justices R.Banumathi and TS Thakur directing Canara Bank to consider the claim of the petitioner according to its scheme which existed in 1993, when the official expired. The Bank was denying compassionate appointment on the plea that the rules have been changed afterwards. (Courtesy: Business Line)
15 Friday May 2015
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Any thing can happen in India, it seems. The Supreme Court has now asked the Central Vigilance Commission to give its views on whether a probe is required to find out if any of the coal block allocations cases has been compromised as a result of the large number of meetings of the CBI Director Ranjit Sinha with the accused corporates.
Interesting! CBI is being inquired. It is clear that corporates in India can influence almost any body.
15 Friday May 2015
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The appeal of the private telecom companies Bharti Airtel, Vodafone, Idea Cellular, Reliance Telecom and some others for extension of their 20 years spectrum licence for 10 years more has been rejected by the Supreme Court. The SC stated that it is the prerogative of the executive to decide, whether the licence is to be extended or not and the court will not interfere.
22 Monday Dec 2014
Posted in BSNL - Better Service to the Nation, PSU
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The Supreme court on 18th December denied stay on the decision of the TDSAT to cancel the penalty of Rs. 1,200 crore imposed on the private telecom operators Airtel, Vodafone and Idea for illegally providing 3G services in the circles, where they did not get the spectrum through auction. The service was provided by them through agreements with other private companies. This was opposed by DOT as illegal and imposed the penalty. But the TDSAT, on appeal gave the decision to allow the roaming. It was against this decision that DOT filed the appeal in the Supreme Court.
The present decision is subject to the final judgment of the Supreme Court which is yet to be delivered.
It is alleged that DOT /BSNL who have much to lose in the TDSAT decision, have not effectively dealt with the case.
03 Wednesday Dec 2014
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NEW DELHI: In an unprecedented move, the Chief Justice of India has set up a special bench of two judges to hear cases related to social issues.
Chief Justice HL Dattu said starting next week, the “Social Justice Bench” will meet every Friday afternoon to handle Public Interest Litigations (PILs) and other petitions on issues ranging from the availability of night shelters for the homeless to whether children in government schools are being provided free mid-day meals and the efficacy of the Public Distribution Scheme which is meant to provide poor families access to subsidized grain.
He said the Supreme Court must play “a proactive role to meet the goals of the constitution.”
The two judges who will handle these cases every Friday are Justice Madan B Lokur and Justice UU Lalit. (Courtesy: NDTV)
