Q: Explain Central Administrative Tribunal ?

Ans: Central Administrative Tribunal: 

CAT was set up in 1985 with the principal bench at Delhi and additional benches in different states.

At present, it has 17 regular benches, 15 of which operate at the principal seats of high courts and the remaining two at Jaipur and Lucknow.

Original Jurisdiction:

All-India services,

The Central Civil Services

Civil posts under the Centre and

Civilian employees of defence services.

Not covered :--

The members of the defence forces, officers and servants of the Supreme Court and the secretarial staff of the Parliament.

Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) 

Chandra Kumar Case 1997.

Originally, appeals against the orders of the CAT could be made only in the Supreme Court and not in the high courts. 

However, in the Chandra Kumar case (1997), the Supreme Court declared this restriction on the jurisdiction of the high courts as unconstitutional, holding that judicial review is a part of the basic structure of the Constitution.

It laid down that appeals against the orders of the CAT shall lie before the division bench of the concerned high court.