PUNISHMENT: "Stoppage of one increment for two years with cumulative effect" What does it mean & how it will be implemented.
From India, Delhi
From India, Delhi
" Stoppage of increment with cumulative effect " is, in general, a major punishment as the deferment of the increment continues perpetually during the rest of the entire service of the employee and also would affect his terminal benefits like gratuity, pension, if any.
It is different from stoppage of increment simpliciter i.e., with holding of increment without cumulative effect which is considered as a minor penalty. Here, after the punishment period is over, the employee's pay would be restored to the next stage.
Stoppage of one increment for two years with cumulative effect would mean that two increments to be earned by the employee would be cut off as a measure of penalty forever in his upward march on earning higher scale of pay. In the words of the Patna High Court in Pramod Narayan Achal v Bihar State Electricity Board & others [2002(2) BLJR 1094] " In other words the clock is put back to a lower stage in the time scale of pay and on expiry of two years the clock starts working from that stage afresh ".
For example, the employee's time-scale of pay is Rs.10000 - 500 - 15000 and his normal date of annual increment is 1st July. Suppose he is awarded a punishment of stoppage of two increments with cumulative effect on 25 th February 2020 while he is drawing a basic pay of Rs.11000/=. He will not be sanctioned the next increments of Rs.500/=each on 01-07-2020 and 01-07-2021 respectively and he would be sanctioned the next increment only on 01-07-2022 raising his basic to Rs.11500/= only instead of Rs.12500/=. Thus he would be effectively losing Rs.1000/= forever.
If the stoppage of increment is without cumulative effect, his basic would be restored to Rs.12500/= on 01-07-2022 and the actual loss would be for a period of two years only.
From India, Salem
5967It is different from stoppage of increment simpliciter i.e., with holding of increment without cumulative effect which is considered as a minor penalty. Here, after the punishment period is over, the employee's pay would be restored to the next stage.
Stoppage of one increment for two years with cumulative effect would mean that two increments to be earned by the employee would be cut off as a measure of penalty forever in his upward march on earning higher scale of pay. In the words of the Patna High Court in Pramod Narayan Achal v Bihar State Electricity Board & others [2002(2) BLJR 1094] " In other words the clock is put back to a lower stage in the time scale of pay and on expiry of two years the clock starts working from that stage afresh ".
For example, the employee's time-scale of pay is Rs.10000 - 500 - 15000 and his normal date of annual increment is 1st July. Suppose he is awarded a punishment of stoppage of two increments with cumulative effect on 25 th February 2020 while he is drawing a basic pay of Rs.11000/=. He will not be sanctioned the next increments of Rs.500/=each on 01-07-2020 and 01-07-2021 respectively and he would be sanctioned the next increment only on 01-07-2022 raising his basic to Rs.11500/= only instead of Rs.12500/=. Thus he would be effectively losing Rs.1000/= forever.
If the stoppage of increment is without cumulative effect, his basic would be restored to Rs.12500/= on 01-07-2022 and the actual loss would be for a period of two years only.
From India, Salem
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