IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM PRESENT : THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE P.N.RAVINDRAN FRIDAY, THE 20TH FEBRUARY 2009 / 1ST PHALGUNA 1930 WP(C).No. 5626 of 2009(W) ----------------------------------- PETITIONER(S): ------------------------ KURIAPPAN C.J. SENIOR GRADE LIBRARIAN (RETD) S/O.JOSEPH, THEKKANATH CHERPUKKARAN, KOTTEKAD, POST KUTTUR, THRISSUR DISTRICT. BY ADV. MR.M.K.DILEEP KUMAR RESPONDENT(S): ------------------------ THE ACOUNTANT GNERAL (A & E) THIRUVANANTHAPURAM. BY GOVERNMENT PLEADER MR.A.J.VARGHESE THIS WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) HAVING COME UP FOR ADMISSION ON 20/02/2009, THE COURT ON THE SAME DAY DELIVERED THE FOLLOWING: P.N.Ravindran, J. ================== W.P.(C) No.5626 of 2009 ===================== Dated this the 20th day of February, 2009. JUDGMENT Heard Sri. M.K.Dileepkumar, the learned counsel appearing for the petitioner and Sri. A.J.Varghese, the learned Government Pleader appearing for the respondent. 2. The petitioner is a pensioner. He retired from serviced on 31.12.1995 while he was working as Senior Grade Librarian in the Kottayam Medical College. After the pension payable to pensioners was reduced by G.O.(P) No.180/06/Fin dated 18.4.2006, the petitioner moved for revision of pension. Though pension was revised, it was refixed on the basis that the petitioner was a Grade I Librarian and not on the basis that he was a Senior Grade Librarian. The petitioner thereupon filed Ext.P2 representation before the Accountant General of Kerala. The Accountant General of Kerala thereafter issued Ext.P3 pension payment order wherein the petitioner was sanctioned pension at the rates applicable to Scientific Information Officer. Pointing out that Senior Grade Librarian and Scientific Information Officer are placed in differents scale of pay, Senior Grade Librarian being in the higher scale, the petitioner has submitted Ext.P4 representation before the Accountant General of Kerala to modify Ext.P3. In this Writ Petition, the petitioner inter alia prays for a direction to the respondent to consider the request -: 2 :- made in Exts.P2 and P4 and to revise his pension within a time limit to be fixed by this Court. 3. The question whether the revised pension sanctioned to the petitioner can be refixed as claimed by him is primarily a matter for the respondent to decide in the first instance. Dis-satisfied with Ext.P3, the petitioner has filed Ext.P4 representation before the respondent pointing out certain defects in the pension payment order. Since the petitioner has already moved the respondent, it is for that authority to consider whether there is any merit in the grievance voiced by the petitioner in Ext.P4. Since the dispute relates to payment of pension, it is only just and proper that appropriate orders are passed on Ext.P4 expeditiously. 3. I accordingly dispose of this Writ Petition with a direction to the respondent to consider the request made by the petitioner in Ext.P4 and take a decision thereon within three months from the date on which the petitioner produces a certified copy of this judgment before the respondent. P.N.Ravindran, Judge. ess 1/3