Higher officials never occurred to them salary, promotion problems; Why are class III and IV employees victimized? MP Superior Court asks the cabinet to intervene

A Division Bank of Judge Vivek Russia and Judge Gajandra Singh observed, “We have encountered several cases, in which the class – IV employees of the various departments of the State of Madhya Pradesh are affected by the decision taken by the senior officers. Most cases are of the nature of the withdrawal of the update of the salary scale, the recovery at the time of retirement and do not become benefits similar to the remaining employees and the delay in the promotion, etc. We have not found any cases in which class I and II officers approach this superior court in this type of litigation. Therefore, the Ministers Cabinet must consider why class III and IV employees are being victims of the incorrect and inflexible approach of the upper officials of the department in question so that the harassment of the class – III and IV can be avoided and lost the valuable time of the court. “

The Court also referred to a litigation policy framed by the State in 2018 in which there is a provision for the constitution of the State and District Level Committee, Department Committee to liquidate minor disputes. “It seems that this policy is in the files and collecting dust.”The court said.

This appeal was presented to the recurring/status of Madhya Pradesh and others who were harmed by the order approved in the writing request No. 26705 of 2022, so the recovery of a number of RS. 94,056/- of an employee/respondent of retired class IV had been canceled. The appeal was presented after a delay of 711 days. Therefore, there was also a request for delay. However, they refused to tolerate the delay indicating that the petitioner/defendant was correctly granted the benefit of a higher salary scale in the light of the executive instruction. Since the right of the petitioner was not in dispute, therefore, the court said that the State had no reason to challenge the contested order as an appeal.

In the last order dated February 17, the Court had ordered the Government Defender to call the officer-in charge (OIC) along with a notes on who gave permission/opinion/approval to present this written appeal before the Bank of the Division.

“We are shocked and surprised that neither the Office of the General Defensor nor the law department granted any approval to present this written appeal, despite the fact that the chief engineer, Phe, Bhopal, the order dated of 16.12.2024 appointed the OIC and ordered him to present this written appeal. There have been no reasons about why the chief engineer thought that this issue is suitable for writing a written appeal before this court. There is no explanation of how this attractiveness in writing can be entertained with merit that also with an inexplicable delay of 711 days. The present written appeal has been left wasting only public money and to lose the valuable time of this court. “The court said.

In addition, the main secretary of the Department of Public Health Engineering was present in person before the Court. When asked why the opinion has been given by the chief engineer to present the current written appeal, he said that the matter has been presented to the Cabinet for approval for the creation of supernumerary positions and only benefits of the update to the request of writings can be given.

“This explanation is even more shocking for us than with respect to the reimbursement of RS. 94,056/ – To class – IV Employees, the Government will place this matter before the cabinet, especially when the contested action had already been annulled by this court in the pile of writing requests, as well as in written appeals with respect to the employees placed similarly in the year 2017 – 18., “,,,,,,,,,, “,”, “,”, “,”, “,”, “,”, “,”, “,”, “,”. “ The court said.

Therefore, the appeal was dismissed with a cost of RS. 20,000/- On the Chief Engineer, Department of Public Health Engineering, Bhopal, who gave an opinion to present the written appeal without examining the facts and the law involved in this case.

Case title: The State of Madhya Pradesh through Public Health Engineering and other versus Balwant Singh Mandloi, Writing Resource No. 404 of 2025

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