Supreme Court: Employees governed by different rules and having different duties can't claim parity merely based on same qualification

The Supreme Court in the case Indian Council Of Agricultural Research Through The Director General And Anr V.

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Rajinder Singh And Ors observed that a different set of employees, who are governed by different set of rules and have different duties, are not entitled to benefits extended to another group of employees merely because they obtaining the same qualification.

In the present case, the letter was issued by the Indian Council of Agricultural Research informing the employees about the revised pay scale which was followed after the recommendations of the Fifth Central Pay Commission. The said communication also provided that a 'scientist will be eligible for two advance increments as and when he acquires a Ph.D. degree in his service career'.

The present respondents who were working on the technical side approached the Central Administrative Tribunal for grant of advance increments to them.