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Cabinet nod to scrap CAT

By Our Special Correspondent

NEW DELHI July 18. The way for the abolition of the Central Administrative Tribunal and the State Administrative Tribunals was paved today with the Union Cabinet giving the green signal for a Bill to amend legislation governing these bodies.

The Union Minister and Cabinet spokesperson, Sushma Swaraj, said the Bill would seek to introduce a clause in the Administrative Tribunal Act of 1985 by which while in the case of the CAT, the Centre would be able to abolish it as and when it deems it to be necessary, in the case of SATs, the Centre would be able to consider abolition in case of such a request from the State concerned.

The amendment has become necessary in the wake of judicial pronouncements under which appeals against the orders of the tribunals have to be first taken to the High Court and then the Supreme Court.

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