{"id":7095,"date":"2024-04-01T07:49:38","date_gmt":"2024-04-01T02:19:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=7095"},"modified":"2025-10-04T17:30:38","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T12:00:38","slug":"central-administrative-tribunal-cat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/central-administrative-tribunal-cat\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT)?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT)<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The CAT had been established under <strong>Article 323-A<\/strong> of the Constitution.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mandate<\/strong>: To <strong>adjudicate disputes<\/strong> and complaints with respect to the <strong>recruitment and conditions of service of persons<\/strong> appointed to <strong>public services and posts in connection with<\/strong> the <strong>affairs of the Union<\/strong> or other authorities under the control of the Government.<\/li>\n<li>In addition to the <strong>Ministries and Departments of Central Government<\/strong>, the Government has notified about 214 organizations under Section 14(2) of the <a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/upsc-exam\/administrative-tribunals\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Administrative Tribunals<\/a> Act, 1985, to bring them within the jurisdiction of the CAT from time to time.<\/li>\n<li>There are 17 Benches and 21 Circuit Benches in the CAT all over India.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Composition<\/strong>: A bench consists of one <strong>Judicial Member<\/strong> and one <strong>Administrative Member.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The <strong>conditions of service<\/strong> of the Chairman and Members of CAT are <strong>the same as applicable to a Judge of High Court.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Salaries, Allowances and Conditions<\/strong> of Service of the officers and other employees of the Tribunal are <strong>specified by the Central Government<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Powers<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li>It exercises <strong>jurisdiction only in relation to<\/strong> the service matters of the parties covered by the <strong>Administrative Tribunals Act 1985.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/upsc-exam\/tribunals\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tribunal<\/a> is <strong>guided by the principles of natural justice<\/strong> in deciding cases and is not bound by the procedure prescribed by the Civil Procedure Code.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>CAT is empowered to <strong>frame its own rules of procedure<\/strong> and practice.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It has been conferred with the <strong>power to exercise the same jurisdiction<\/strong> and authority <strong>in respect of contempt of itself as a High Court.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What are Tribunals in India?<\/h3>\n<p>Tribunals are judicial or quasi-judicial institutions established by law. They intend to provide a platform for faster adjudication as compared to traditional courts, as well as expertise on certain subject matters. It performs a number of functions, like adjudicating disputes, determining rights between contesting parties, making an administrative decision, reviewing an existing administrative decision, and so forth.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.livelaw.in\/high-court\/allahabad-high-court\/allahabad-high-court-ruling-appeals-against-cat-contempt-orders-supreme-court-contempt-of-courts-act-253830\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Administrative Tribunals Act | Appeal Against CAT Order In Contempt Proceedings Lies Before Supreme Court, Not High Court: Allahabad High Court<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Central Administrative Tribunal had been established under Article 323-A of the Constitution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":7096,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7095","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}