The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court on Monday directed the State to produce the report of the one-man committee set up to rectify pay anomalies of government employees. The committee, headed by IAS officer M.A. Siddique, has submitted its report to the government.
When an ongoing public interest litigation that sought to restrain the Joint Action Council of Tamil Nadu Teachers’ Organisations-Government Employees’ Organisations (JACTTO-GEO) from organising agitations came up for hearing, a Division Bench of Justices K.K. Sasidharan and G.R. Swaminathan asked the government to submit the report in a sealed cover by Wednesday.
Hearing adjourned
It also asked the government to file an affidavit on the action it was planning to take on the report. The hearing was adjourned to Friday. JACTTO-GEO was planning a series of agitations after the government failed to adequately address its demands, including restoration of the old pension scheme, rectification of Pay Commission anomalies and payment of arrears for the delay of 21 months in implementing the Seventh Pay Commission recommendations.
The organisation deferred its plan to go on strike from December 4 after the High Court Bench took up the public interest litigation and asked the State to file reports on the action taken.
