The Patna High Court has dismissed a plea by members of Bihar’s Watershed Development Teams claiming a 10% annual increment, holding that the 2020 governing-body resolution granting the increment applied only to employees of the Bihar Watershed Development Society, not to WDT members, who are a separate category under the 2008 Watershed Guidelines. The Court held the withdrawal of the wrongly-extended benefit lawful, but directed that amounts already paid need not be refunded.
