By Special Correspondent
Bhopal: Engineer Sudhir Nayak, president of the Mantralaya Seva Adhikari/Karmachari Sangh, has welcomed recent observations of the High Court expressing concern over the sharp rise in service-related cases and advising the establishment of an internal mechanism for their resolution.
Addressing a press briefing, Nayak said the High Court, while hearing a petition, noted that nearly 50,000 service matters are currently pending, placing an enormous burden on the judiciary. The court has also directed that a copy of its order be sent to the Chief Secretary. Nayak pointed out that employees are often compelled to approach courts even for minor and justified service issues, reflecting a serious failure of existing grievance redressal systems.
He said that apart from pending cases, thousands of matters where court verdicts have already been delivered remain unresolved due to non-compliance, making the overall situation alarming. The High Court, he added, has repeatedly cautioned the administration on this issue. Directions issued in earlier cases, including the Sushila Devi matter, to apply a single judicial decision uniformly to similar cases were never implemented in practice.
Nayak said previous mechanisms such as consultative committees, internal grievance committees, employee welfare committees and the system of a minister in charge of employee affairs have failed to deliver results. He stressed that the abolition of the State Administrative Tribunal in 2003 forced all service matters into the High Court.
The union has demanded the re-establishment of an Administrative Tribunal or the creation of an Employees’ Arbitration Tribunal as the only viable long-term solution.
