EPA-04 Personnel administration Unit12 Administrative tribunals

                (The need for setting up of administrative tribunals)

(1) To provide speedy and inexpensive relief to the employees in dealing with

       their service grievances.



(2) Judicial courts because of their heavy preoccupation, long pending nad backlog of cases,

   costs involved and time factors could not offer the much needed remedy to the government

   employees.



                  (Different types of administrative tribunals)

      (1)Central administrative tribunals

      (2)State administrative tribunals.

      (3)Joint adminstrative tribunals.





            (Qualifications for appointment of chairman, vice chairman and members of tribunals)

(1)To be appointed as chairman or vice-chairman, one has to be qualified to be a judge of high court

  or has held the post of a secretary to the government of india at least for two years or an

  equivalent pay post.



(2)To be qualified for appointment as an administrative member, one should have held at least for

    two years the post of additional secretary to the government of india or an equivalent pay post.



        (The procedures for making an application to initiate the matter before the administrative

  tribunal for redressal of grievance)

(1)An application should be in prescribed form, accompanied by relevant documents, evidence and

   Prescribed fee.



(2)Tribunal may admit a application on being satisfied that the applicant has availed of all the

   remedies available to him under the relevant service rules.





         (Limitations of tribunals)

(1)Arbitrary and inconsistent decisions.



(2)Exclusion of scope of judicial review on service matters.



(3)Lack of background of law and judicial work amongs members.



(4)No clear cut provision regarding the sharing of authority of issuing writs between the courts

   and tribunals.



(5)Absense of an appellate forum within the tribunal.