In Brief
This case involved employees of the National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration seeking equal pay scale benefits as were granted to senior stenographers in an earlier Supreme Court judgment (Yogeshwar Prasad). The petitioners, who held the lower post of Junior Stenographer/Stenographer Grade-II, had acquired identical pay scales through advancement but had not held the senior post during the relevant period. The Court held that parity in pay requires employees to be similarly situated. Since the petitioners held different substantive posts and were promoted to the senior grade only after the applicable pay commission regime had ended, they were not similarly situated. The petition was dismissed."
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