Recently the issue of recovery of excess payment of Combined Duty Allowance (CDA) payable to GDS came to the judicial scrutiny before the Hon'ble CAT, Earnakulam Bench. The Bench while deciding OA No.39112021 and connected cases vide order dated 07.06.2023 (Annexure A) has, inter-alia, directed to recover over payment of combined duty allowance from the GDS (both in the single handed and all other BOs), inter-alia, observing that "Combined duty allowance can be claimed by a GDS only discharging the additional duties subject to the two riders: - "Combined duty allowance can be claimed by a GDS only discharging the additional duties subject to the two riders: - (a) There must be two or more posts in the establishment. (b) The duty of that post should be borne on the post of that BO and duty of that post is to be combined with another post of that particular office. 2. While examining the aforementioned court cases, it was noted that this officeOrder No. 17-31/2016-GDS