After the Maharashtra Administrative Tribunal gave relief to 30 government employees who retired just a day before their increment, the litigants said the state government should issue a government resolution so that all employees who retire on June 30 (for Sixth Pay Commission) and December 31 (for Seventh Pay Commission) get the same benefits without having to approach the court.

Vasant Utikar, 62, a Byculla resident, retired as sales tax inspector on June 30, 2018, and was denied any incremental benefits that were to be implemented from the next day as per the Sixth Pay Commission. “I wrote numerous letters to my department heads and the state finance department, intimating them about the Supreme Court order, but they returned my plea stating that the state government has not issued any government resolution (GR) considering the implementation of revised pay scale as on July 1. So, I had no option but to move MAT,” he said.