General Financial Rules

The Supreme Court dismissed appeals and writ petitions filed by employees of the National Water Development Agency (NWDA) and Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti (JNVS) who sought to be covered under the Office Memorandum (O.M.) dated 1‑May‑1987 and the Central Civil Service (Pension) Rules, 1972. The Court held that NWD…

The Centre for Public Interest Litigation challenged the Government of India's decision to sell majority shares of Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd (HPCL) and Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd (BPCL) to private parties without amending the ESSO (Acquisition of Undertaking in India) Act, 1974, the Burma Shell Act, 197…

Harnam Singh, a government servant who joined in 1956, discovered that his date of birth recorded in his service book (20‑May‑1934) differed from that on his matriculation certificate (7‑Apr‑1938). He sought correction in 1991, just months before his scheduled superannuation, but the department rejected his request cit…