In Government service, there are legal provisions for appointment on compassionate grounds. But due to faulty scrutiny, many deceased employees’ heirs are being deprived of employment opportunities.
Due to this cases regarding the matter are piling up in the courts. After getting a favorable verdict from the State Administrative Tribunal (SAT) and High Court, the applicants are getting jobs after years. A SAT Bench has rejected the Government’s order in such a case and directed the Government to provide the applicant a job within three months.
The case details said an employee working as a driver on deputation to Image, under the aegis Agriculture Department died. As his widowed wife was critically ill, his son Rajendra Kumar Jena applied for employment under compassionate grounds.
The departmental authorities asked the standing medical board to submit a report on the health condition of the deceased employee’s wife. later, the board after conducting medical tests gave a report that she is totally unfit for a Government job.
The Puri district Collector conducted an inquiry through the Tesidar about the family’s financial condition and ascertained that besides pension, nobody in the family had any income or any job. So, the Collector recommended Rajendra to be provided with a job as per his qualifications.
But the Government out rightly rejected the Collector’s recommendation stating that the applicant’s mother was alive and he cannot be provided with a job.
A disappointed Rajendra after running from pillar to post approached SAT’s former Government pleader Prahalad Singh and filed a case.
After hearing the applicant and the prosecutions arguments, a bench consisting SAT working Chairman BK Das and Administrative Member Manmohan Praharaj rejected the Government order and directed to provide a job to Rajendra within three months.
The SAT in its judgement said according to the Reservation Act an economically weak family’s member can be rehabilitated in a class three or class four posts, according to his or her qualification in a Government job.