Relevant date for claiming Pension Scheme is date of actual appointment & not date of approval of appointment

State of Tamil Nadu Vs R. Chitradevi (Madras High Court) Hon’ble Division Bench of this Hon’ble Court in V.Vasanthi Vs. State of Tamil Nadu 2019(4) CTC 865 held that the relevant date for claiming Old Pension Scheme is the date of actual appointment and not the date of approval of appointment. The relevant para from the Hon’ble Division Bench Judgment in Vasanthi’s case is extracted hereunder: “A careful perusal of the above observation made in the said Pallivasal Primary School case would show that even though approval of the Appointment of the Teacher, who has under...