Service extension: Punjab gets notice
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, February 4
The Punjab and Haryana High Court today issued a Notice of Motion for March 29 to the state of Punjab and other respondents on a petition filed in public interest for quashing January 27 order granting one year extension in service to employees retiring between January 22 and December 31.

The petitioner threw a challenge to the order on grounds, including large-scale persisting unemployment and decreasing job opportunities due to shifting of industries to neighbouring states like Jammu and Kashmir, Uttranchal and Himachal Pradesh.

The order implementing the decision of the state Cabinet taken on January 22 was patently illegal, erroneous, unjust, improper and in utter disregard of the Punjab Civil Services Rules, petitioners Ravinder Singh Rana and two others said.