IN THE HIGH COURT OF UTTARANCHAL AT NAINITAL WRIT PETITION NO.186 (SS) OF 2006 Khariti Lal Sharma, S/o late Ganesh Dass Sharma, Prantiya Maha Mantri Rashtriya, Pensioners Kalyan Samiti, Haridwar. R/o 633, Ram Nagar, Roorkee, District Haridwar. ……………..Petitioner. Versus 1. State of Uttaranchal through Chief Secretary, Administration, Uttaranchal, District Dehradun. 2. Director Madhyamik Shiksha/Basic Uttaranchal. 3. President/Director Uttaranchal Power Corporation Ltd., Urja Bhawan Kawali Road, Dehradun. …..Respondents. Sri Manish Arora, Advocate for the petitioner Sri B.D. Upadhyay, Advocate for the respondents. Dated: 22.02.2006 Hon’ble Rajesh Tandon, J. By the present writ petition, the petitioner has prayed for a writ of mandamus commanding the respondents to pay the original pension of the petitioner and other employees as stated in the body of the petition with merger of 50% of Dearness Allowance/Dearness with basic pension w.e.f. 01.04.2004 and also order to pay the arrears form 01.04.2004. During the course of the argument, learned counsel for the petitioner has confined his prayer for entitlement of the pensionery benefits alone, therefore, this order will confine to the grant of the pensionery benefits to the petitioner alone. According to the case of the petitioner, the petitioner is the Prantiya Maha Mantri of this Committee. The short submission of the petitioner is that he is entitled for the pensionery benefit by means of notification dated 9th June, 2004 after the merge of 50% of Dearness Allowance/Dearness Relief with basic pay/pension w.e.f. 01.04.2004 as it has already done in the case of Central Govt. Employees. He has also referred notification dated 9th June, 2004, which has been filed as Annexure-2 to the writ petition, where it has been mentioned in paragraphs 5 and 6 as under:- ^^5- ;g lqfuf’pr djus ds fy, fd fnukad 1-4-2004 ls 31-1-2005 ds chp lsokfuo`Rr gksus okys isa’ku Hkksfx;ksa dks isa’ku fu/kkZj.k esa dksbZ gkfu u gks] muds ekeys esa fo’ks"k O;oLFkk ds :Ik esa] ewy osru ds 50 izfr’kr ds cjkcj eagxkbZ HkRrs dks fnukad 1-4-2004 ls iwoZ muds }kjk izkIr ewy osru ds lEcU/k esa isa’ku ds ifjdyu@vkdyu ds iz;kstuksa gsrq ewy osru ds :i esa ekuk tk;sxkA ifj.kke Lo:i eagxkbZ isa’ku dk Hkkx dsoy fnukad 31-3-2004 rd jkT; ljdkj ls lsok fuo`Rr gsus okys isa’ku Hksfx;ksa ds fy, ykxw gksxkA 6- fnukad 1-4-2004 vFkok mlds ckn ;fn dksbZ osru o`f) vFkok vU; dkj.k ls osru@isa’ku esa iqujh{k.k ns; gksrk gS] ,slh fLFkfr esa Hkh 50 izfr’kr ds cjkcj eagxkbZ osru vuqeU; gksxkA 7- mDr dk;kZy; Kki }kjk jkT; deZpkfj;ksa ds fy, ykxw O;oLFkk ds QyLi:i 1 vizSy 2004 ls 30 twu 2004 rd dh ns; /kujkf’k lEcfU/kr vf/kdkjh@deZpkjh ds Hkfo"; fuf/k [kkrs esa tek dh tk;sxhA ;fn dksbZ vf/kdkjh@deZpkjh Hkfo"; fuf/k dk lnL; ugha gS rks mls mDr vo;qDr /kujkf’k jk"Vªh; cpu i= ds :i esa nh tk;sxh] ijUrq /kujkf’k ds ftl va’k dk lfVZfQdsV miyC/k u gks] og uxn nh tk;sxh A tks dehZ mDr dk;Zky; Kki fuXkZr gksus ds nks ekg ds vUnj lsok fuo`fRr gks jgs gSa] dks mDr vo’ks"k /kujkf’k dk udn Hkqxrku fd;k tk;sxk A** After the notification of 09.06.2004, the department of respondent no. 3 also gave the consent regarding the 50% of Dearness Allowance/Dearness Relief with basic pay/ pension w.e.f. 1.4.2004 vide order dated 16.09.2004 in general. When the aforesaid relief was not granted to the petitioner, he made a representation on 9th March, 2005 before the authorities concerned but the respondents did not pay any heed to the same. The petitioner gave other representations on 27.03.2005 and 28.03.2005 as well as other representations from time to time stating his grievances but of no avail. Liberty is given to the petitioner to approach the authorities by filing a fresh representation on his own behalf before the respondents no. 1, 2 and 3 for his payment, which shall be considered within a period of six weeks thereafter in accordance with the statutory recommendation by virtue of G.O. dated 9th June, 2004 and the decision taken by the Director Uttaranchal Power Corporation Ltd. Urja Bhawan Kawali Road, Dehradun on 16.09.2004 Subject to the aforesaid, writ petition is disposed of. No order as to costs. (Rajesh Tandon, J.) 22.02.2006 Rathour