c The employees of the Kanpur branch of the appellant bank enjoyed medical facilities without a monetary ceiling. Under the Sastry Award, and under the Desai Award which substantially adopted the Sastry Award in this respect, the higher medical benefits enjoyed by the employees of the branch, were to continue. In pursuance of the Bipartite Settlement in 1966 an attempt was made to standardise "medical aid and expenses" by bringing the employees of the branch in line D with the other branches of the bank, but without success. During the conciliation proceedings before the Regional Labour Commissioner the appellant was agreeable, until the next All India Settlement/ Award in the banking industry when the workmen of the appellantbank at Kanpur would fall in line with that settlement/award, to a higher limit of Rs. 250/- for medical aid and expe~ses for the employees of the branch as compared to the ceiling fixed under the BiparE tite Settlement' for employees of other banks. This limit was to be applicable to the employees as well as to their families. The appellant bank was also agreeable to pay the hospitalisation expenses but only of the workmen. A dispute as to what should be the monetary limit up to which medical aid and expenses should be admissible to the workmen of the Kanpur branch was referred to the Industrial Tribunal an'd the Tribunal gave an award declaring that the employees F of the branch and their families would be entitled to medical aid and expenses up to a monetary limit of Rs. 250 - per year. The Tribunal further directed that the appellant-bank would defray the hospitalisation charges not only for the employees but also for the members of their families.
