The Bombay High Court recently issued notice on a PIL filed to air the grievances of several employees whose matters are pending before the Nagpur Bench of Maharashtra Administrative Tribunal for many years and no relief is coming their way, in view of indifference of the respondent State of Maharashtra in filling up both the vacancies of judicial members.
The PIL has been filed by Advocate Rahul Vijay Shiralkar, who is an esteemed member of the Bar, on behalf of such aggrieved employees. The petitioner stated there are two vacancies of judicial members at Nagpur and both of them have remained unfilled for the last two years.
It is also the grievance of the petitioner that sometimes the vacancies are filled up so belatedly that the judicial member who is appointed hardly gets any tenure to perform his duty in office.
The further grievance of the petitioner is that the office of the Maharashtra Administrative Tribunal, Nagpur is having shortage of staff members, lack of video conferencing facilities and inadequate infrastructural facilities at this Bench.
To illustrate the point, petitioner submitted that there are three posts of judicial members and only one stenographer has been provided. The petitioner further pointed out that there are in all 39 sanctioned posts of administrative staff and judicial members, of which 15 posts are lying vacant.
The Nagpur bench comprised of Justice Sunil B. Shukre and Justice Anil L. Pansare having considered the submissions issued notice to the respondents for final disposal at admission stage.