Assam Minorities Board Employees Paid Through Grants-In-Aid, Not State Salary Head, Cannot Be Treated as Government Servants: Gauhati High Court

A Division Bench of the Gauhati High Court, comprising Chief Justice Ashutosh Kumar and Justice Manish Choudhury, has held that the employees of the Assam Minorities Development Board—whose salaries are drawn from grants-in-aid rather than the regular State salary head—are not entitled to pension under Rule 31 of the Assam Services (Pension) Rules, 1969. Challenge to denial of pension by long-serving Board employees The petitioners, including Sri Ismail Ali, were…