THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE N.RAVI SHANKAR WRIT PETITION NO.2383 OF 2002 Dated: 09.08.2011 Between: P. Ramulu and others …Petitioners And: Agricultural College & Horticulture Research Station, Aswaraopet, Khammam District, rep. by its Principal and others …Respondents. THE COURT MADE THE FOLLOWING: THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE N.RAVI SHANKAR WRIT PETITION NO.2383 OF 2002 ORDER: The petitioners who are 62 in number filed this writ petition under Article 226 of the Constitution seeking a writ of Mandamus or any other appropriate writ, order or direction to the respondents to regularize their services in the office of the 1st respondent college where they are said to be working as casual labourers. The 1st respondent is the agricultural college and horticulture research station at Ashwaraopet, represented by its Principal. The 2nd respondent is the Associate Dean of the above agricultural college in Khammam District. The 3rd respondent is the Vice Chancellor of Acharya N.G. Ranga Agricultural University. 2. The petitioners are seeking the above relief on the ground that they are entitled to have their services regularized in terms of G.O.Ms.No.212, Finance & Planning (FW.PC.III) Department, dated 22-4-1994. In the said G.O., it is stated that the services of the daily wage/temporary employees who have been working on casual basis for more than five years and who are continued in service as on 25-11- 1993 are to be regularized subject to certain conditions specified in it. The dates of appointment of the petitioners and length of service of each petitioner are furnished in a separate list filed in the material papers filed by the petitioners and that list is at page-18 of the said material papers. 3. A perusal of the said list would show that all the petitioners have been working as casual labourers from late 1988 onwards and some of them have been working since 1992 and also 1993. Thus it is clear that they have not complied with the condition of completion of five years continuous service as on 25-11-1993 which is the cutoff date specified in the above G.O.Ms.No.212. 4. A Division Bench of this Court in W.P.No.25961 of 2001 by judgment dated 19-8-2009 and relying upon the Supreme Court decision given in A.Manjula Bhashini Vs. A.P. Women’s Coop. Finance Corpn. Ltd.[1] clearly held that to fall within the purview of G.O.Ms.No.212 the concerned employees/casual labourers have to work in concerned posts for more than five years and should be in service as on 25-11-1993 which is the cutoff date mentioned in the aforesaid G.O.Ms.No.212. It is further held that if the claimants fail to satisfy the above requirements of G.O.Ms.No.212, their cases have to be rejected. 5. In the present case the material placed on record by the petitioners is not sufficient to hold that their case falls within the four corners of G.O.Ms.No.212. Accordingly, following the decisions of the Supreme Court and the Division Bench of this Court mentioned supra, it is clear that this writ petition has to fail. 6. Accordingly this writ petition is dismissed. No costs. ___________________________ JUSTICE N.RAVI SHANKAR 9th August, 2011 Tjmr THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE N.RAVI SHANKAR WRIT PETITION NO.2383 OF 2002 Date: 09.08.2011 [1] (2009) 8 Supreme Court Cases 431