Government appointments on compassionate grounds to family members of staffers who died in the harness should be made within six months from applying, the Supreme Court has said in a judgment.
A Bench led by Justice M.R. Shah said the very intention behind “compassionate appointments” is to render immediate help to families of dead government employees. Time is of essence. Making these families wait for years is hardly compassionate on the part of the government, it said.
“A family of a deceased employee may be placed in a position of financial hardship upon the untimely death of the employee while in service and the basis or policy is immediacy in rendering of financial assistance to the family of the deceased consequent upon his untimely death,” Justice Shah explained.
