HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE R. SUBHASH REDDY Writ Petition No.4768 of 2010 Date: March 2, 2010 Between: Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation Contract Workers and Labour Union, Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation, represented by its Honorary President Sri M. Ananda Rao … Petitioner And The Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation, represented by its Commissioner, Visakhapatnam, and 3 others … Respondents Order: This writ petition is filed seeking Mandamus declaring the action of the respondents in not paying minimum wages to the members of the petitioner-union as illegal and arbitrary and a consequential direction to the respondents to pay minimum wages, under the Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act, 1970 as per notification dated 18-08-2009, issued by the Commissioner of Labour, Andhra Pradesh, vide proceedings No.S2/3632/09. It is the case of the petitioner that Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation is engaging workers through contractors for executing various works. The grievance of the petitioner is that though a statutory notification is issued by the State notifying wage rates under the Minimum Wages Act, 1948 i.e. Rs.4,030/- per month for unskilled workers, Rs.5,070/- per month for semi-skilled workers and Rs.6,110/- for skilled workers, the said rates are not being applied to the members of the petitioner-union. Except alleging vaguely that wages are not being paid at the notified rates, no instance is referred to, in the affidavit filed in support of the writ petition, where respondents have got works executed from the members of the petitioner-union and not paid wages as per the notified rates. Hence, I do not find any ground to admit the writ petition. The writ petition is devoid of merits and is accordingly dismissed. No order as to costs. ________________________ R. SUBHASH REDDY, J March 2, 2010 MRR