READ THE EXTRACT OF GO.93 DATED 03/04/2010 ON STEP UP
Para-3 States that
3. Government accepted the above recommendations and
accordingly hereby order that:
(a) The existing system of awarding Automatic Advancement
Scheme scales on completion of Eight (8) / Sixteen (16) and Twenty four (24)
years shall be continued.
(b) These orders shall apply to all those who are drawing
pay in Grade - I to Grade – XXV i.e., upto and inclusive of the Revised Pay
Scales of Rs.25,600 –Rs.50,560 as indicated in Schedule –I of the Government
Order twentieth read above.
(c ) The benefit of pay fixation under F.R.22-B shallcontinue to be allowed on promotion evenif the employee had derived the benefit under
Special Grade Scale / Special Promotion Post Scale-I.If this resultsin the senior drawing less pay than that
ofjunior, the pay of the senior should
be stepped up with effect from the date of promotion of the junior, to a figure
equal to the pay as fixed for the junior in the higher post to which he / she
is promoted on or after
01-07-2008 subject to the following conditions:
(i) both the Senior and Junior should have been drawing pay
in an identical scale;
(ii) both the Senior and Junior should be in service as on
01-07-2008 and junior should have been promoted on or after 01-07-2008. In
other words the anomaly should have arisen on or after 1-7-2008
(iii) the senior as well as the junior should be promoted to
the same category of post carrying the same scale of pay under the same mode of
recruitment and from the same unit of appointment in the lower category.
(iv) the pay of the junior in the lower category should have
been less than or equal to that of the senior in the lower category prior to
promotion of the senior to the higher post.
(v) the anomaly should be directly as a result in the case
of Junior, who is promoted to a higher post after getting the benefit of
Automatic Advancement Scheme and got more pay than his senior in the same
category, who got promotion to the higher post without getting the benefit of
Automatic Advancement Scheme.
(vi) the pay of the senior should have been fixed under F.R.
22(a)(i) read with F.R. 31(2) on promotion from Automatic Advancement Scales in
the feeder category, whereas the pay of the Junior should have been fixed under
F.R. 22-B on promotion from the Automatic Advancement Scales in the feeder
category.
(vii) the stepping up pay is not admissible in cases where
the junior is drawing higher pay for any other reason such as sanction of
Advance Increment for possession of higher qualification or Family Planning
Incentive Increment or reckoning D.A. thereon for fixation of pay in earlier
pay revisions, Advance Increments for merit, or on account of longer service in
the lower post for working in various units of appointments etc,
(viii) in all cases affected by this order, the pay of the
senior shall be fixed notionally from the date the junior got higher pay than
that of the senior in the higher post, with monetary benefit from 01-02-2010,
if such anomaly arose in between 01-07-2008 to 31-01-2010. In cases where such
anomaly arose after 01-02-2010, the benefit shall be allowed from the date the
pay of the Junior was more than that of Senior.
d) Where the Service Rules are relaxed to enable regular
promotions, they should be automatically extended to get the benefits under
Automatic Advancement Scheme
(e) If service rules are changed imposing additional
qualifications for promotion after the entry of the individual into service,
thereby depriving him for the benefit of promotion and consequently to the
benefits of Special Promotion Post Scale-I / Special Promotion Post Scale-II,
he / she shall be given the benefit of the next scale contemplated under the
Special Adhoc Promotion Post Scale –I & II.