{"id":1007047,"date":"2026-05-07T09:50:33","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T04:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1007047"},"modified":"2026-05-07T10:02:31","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T04:32:31","slug":"bsnl-asked-to-pay-salary-to-employee-with-disability-till-superannuation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/07\/bsnl-asked-to-pay-salary-to-employee-with-disability-till-superannuation\/","title":{"rendered":"BSNL asked to pay salary to employee with disability till superannuation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ahmedabad: The Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) here has ordered the payment of salary to a Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) employee until the date of his retirement. He was prematurely retired after he was diagnosed with a mental illness. <\/p>\n<p>The tribunal quashed BSNL&#8217;s decision to compulsorily retire the employee from the post of junior telecom officer, holding that protections under the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016, override the company&#8217;s service rules on premature retirement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ahmedabad: The Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) here has ordered the payment of salary to a Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) employee until the date of his retirement. He was prematurely retired after he was diagnosed with a mental illness. The tribunal quashed BSNL&#8217;s decision to compulsorily retire the employee from the post of junior telecom officer, holding that protections under the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016, override the company&#8217;s service rules on premature retirement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1007047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1007047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1007047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1007047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1007047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}