Dear Sir.
I am working in Department of Space/ISRO as scientist engineer. It has various centers and autonomous units under it. I got transfer from one ISRO center to an autonomous unit under DOS in June 2015 on same post/cadre and same pay scale. My date of annual increment was 1st July 2015. I have been denied this annual increment saying that my services at autonomous unit is considered as a fresh joining and I am permanently absorbed in an autonomous unit. I would like to know the following:
1. As posts at both autonomous unit and ISRO center are on same scale and there is no service lapse in my transfer. Also my transfer was also not on any fresh advertisement and there was no selection procedure for my transfer. How can my service is considered as a fresh service.
2. What does pay protection mean. Does it mean protection of date of increment also.
Thanks and regards,
Sunny Singh