Speaking Order
Stub article on the speaking order, the reasoned order requirement in central government service matters. A full encyclopedic entry is pending.
What this article will cover
A full salary-calculator article on the speaking order will cover the requirement that an order affecting a government servant disclose the reasons on which it rests: the rule in Siemens Engineering and Manufacturing Co. of India Ltd. v. Union of India, (1976) 2 SCC 981, and S.N. Mukherjee v. Union of India, (1990) 4 SCC 594; how the word consider in Rule 27(2) of the CCS (Classification, Control and Appeal) Rules, 1965 imports the requirement into an appellate order; the narrower standard applied to an order of affirmance; and the consequences of a non-speaking order in a departmental inquiry or before the Central Administrative Tribunal, with internal links to neighbouring topics on salary-calculator.in and a references section pointing to primary sources.