IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM PRESENT : THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE S.SIRI JAGAN MONDAY, THE 22ND NOVEMBER 2010 / 1ST AGRAHAYANA 1932 WP(C).No. 34846 of 2010(E) ----------------------------------------- PETITIONER(S): ------------------------- 1. THANKACHAN A.J., LINEMAN GR-I, ELECTRICITY DEPARTMENT, THRISSUR CORPORATION, THRISSUR. 2. K.MOHANAN, LINEMAN GR-1, ELECTRICITY DEPARTMENT, THRISSUR CORPORATION, THRISSUR. BY ADVS. SMT.K.P.GEETHA MANI, SMT. ASWATHI APPUKUTTAN. RESPONDENT(S): ---------------------------- 1. THE DIRECTOR OF URBAN AFFAIRS, THIRUVANANTHAPURAM - 695 001. 2. THE THRISSUR CORPORATION REPRESENTED BY ITS SECRETARY, CORPORATION OFFICE, THRISSUR - 680 001. R1 BY GOVERNMENT PLEADER SRI. ANTONY MUKKATH R2 BY ADV. SRI. K.B.MOHANDAS, SC, THRISSUR CORPORATION THIS WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) HAVING COME UP FOR ADMISSION ON 22/11/2010, THE COURT ON THE SAME DAY DELIVERED THE FOLLOWING: Kss S. SIRI JAGAN, J. ----------------------------------- W.P.(C) No.34846 OF 2010 --------------------------------------- Dated this the 22nd day of November, 2010 JUDGMENT The petitioners were appointed as Electricity Workers through the Kerala Public Service Commission in the Thrissur Corporation, who is the second respondent herein. They were subsequently promoted as Linemen Gr.I. They aspire for promotion to the post of Overseer. The post of Overseer has to be filled up from among Linemen for which a proportion is fixed as between ITI certificate holders and persons, who do not have the qualification of ITI. The grievance of the petitioners in this writ petition is that the quota prescribed has been violated in the matter of making promotions to the post of Overseer. Detailing this grievance, they have filed Ext.P5 representation before the first respondent. For the present, the petitioners confine their relief for a direction to the first respondent to consider and pass orders on Ext.P5 expeditiously. W.P.(C)No.34846/10 2 2. I have heard the learned Government Pleader also. Having heard both sides, I dispose of this writ petition with a direction to the first respondent to consider and pass orders on Ext.P5 as expeditiously as possible, at any rate, within two months from the date of receipt of a copy of this judgment, after affording an opportunity of being heard to the petitioners, the second respondent and the others, who may be affected by an order on Ext.P5 favourable to the petitioners. S. SIRI JAGAN, JUDGE acd W.P.(C)No.34846/10 3