CWP(T) No.617 of 2008 28.5.2009. Present: Mr.Dharam Pal Gupta, counsel for the petitioner. Mr.R.K. Bawa, Advocate General, with Mr.J.K. Verma, Dy.A.G., for the respondents. By means of this petition, the petitioner has challenged the order dated 12.3.2008, whereby she was transferred from I&PH Division Bilaspur to I&PH Division Paddhar, District Mandi, against a vacant post. The main ground raised by the petitioner was that she had been transferred from Bilaspur after a short span of six months since she had joined at Bilaspur only in the month of September, 2007. The erstwhile H.P. State Administrative Tribunal stayed the implementation of the impugned order on 31st March, 2008. The petitioner, thus, continues to be at Bilaspur. Reply has been filed by the State, which shows that the petitioner joined service on 18.7.1980 at Sunder Nagar. After spending 1-1/2 years at Sunder Nagar, she was posted at Bilaspur. From 16.12.1981 to 15.7.2002, i.e. for 21 years, the petitioner remained at Bilaspur. She was then transferred to Ghumarwin, but it is apparent that she managed to get herself retransferred to Bilaspur after a short span of 8 months. She again spent 2-1/2 years at Bilaspur and was then transferred to Sunder Nagar. From Sunder Nagar, she was transferred to Ghumarwin where she spent 1 year and 4 months and was again transferred to Bilaspur. The record reveals that out of her total service of 29 years, the petitioner has spent 25 years at Bilaspur alone. It has been strenuously argued by Mr.Gupta, learned counsel for the petitioner, that the petitioner should have been allowed to complete her normal tenure of 3 years at Bilaspur. The normal tenure specified in the Transfer Policy is for people who -2- CWP(T) No.617 of 2008 have served all over the State like all other employees. The benefit of normal tenure will not be available to the people like the petitioner, who apparently managed to stay at one station for their entire service. Even when, for 3-4 years, the petitioner had been sent out of Bilaspur, she was sent either to Ghumarwin which is at a distance of 17 kms. from Bilaspur, or to Sunder Nagar which is also at a short distance from Bilaspur. In view of the above discussion, we find no merit in the writ petition which is dismissed with costs of Rs.2,000/- to be paid by the petitioner. (Deepak Gupta), Judge . May 28, 2009. (V.K. Ahuja), (TILAK) Judge.