GHRC provides relief to retired Group ‘C’ employee
Panjim: The Goa Human Rights Commission (GHRC) has provided relief to a Group ‘C’ retired employee by directing the Town and Country Planning (TCP) department not to recover Rs 2.58 lakh extra paid before he retired in April 2021. .
The complainant Suryakant Kavlekar of Talegaon had approached the Commission for non-release of his pension after he retired from government service on superannuation on April 30, 2021, and his pension case was not resolved till August 25, 2021. The Town and Country Planning (TCP) department said the question of releasing the additional amount paid to the complainant came to the notice of the Chief Town Planner, who issued a letter to the Directorate of Accounts on October 12, 2022, for recovery of Rs 2,53,789. Did. Gratuity of the complainant. However, the Accounts Directorate said that since the matter is sub-judice before the Commission, the recovery pending in the present case may be decided accordingly.
After studying the replies and on the basis of Supreme Court judgments, which have been accepted by the State, the two-member commission, comprising Acting Chairman Justice Desmond D’Costa and Member Justice Pramod Kamat, held that the employees belonging to the group Recovery will be made from. ‘C’ and ‘D’ are unacceptable. Similarly, recovery is not allowed from retired employees or from employees who are scheduled to retire within one year of the order of recovery.
It said that after the retirement of the employee, the respondents cannot recover the so-called additional amount of Rs 2,58,789 paid to him several years ago.
