THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE C.V.RAMULU WRIT PETITION No.26568 OF 2000 Dated: 16-12-2010 Between: A.V.S.Narayana Reddy & Another …Petitioners AND The Vice Chairman and Managing Director, A.P. Forest Development Corporation, UNI Buildings, Hyderabad and others Respondent. This Court made the following: HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE C.V.RAMULU WRIT PETITION No.26568 OF 2000 ORDER: This writ petition is filed seeking a writ of mandamus declaring the action of the respondents in not regularizing the services of the petitioners as Technical Maistry and not paying the scale attached to the post, though the petitioners are working for more than 19 years (as of today 29 years) as arbitrary, illegal and consequently, to direct the respondents to regularize the services of the petitioners with effect from their initial appointment with all consequential benefits. According to the petitioners, they were initially appointed on contingent basis. However, their services were regularized in the contingent category as Technical Maistry with effect from 1.6.1990. Now, the grievance of the petitioners is that they are fully qualified and eligible for being considered for regularization of their services in the regular vacancies to which they are suitable. A detailed counter affidavit has been filed by the respondents stating that the first petitioner is not working as Draughtsman and he is being continued as Technical Maistry on ad hoc basis only. Further he is possessing only intermediate qualification. Whereas, the second petitioner failed intermediate. The qualifications prescribed to the post of Junior Draughtsman in direct recruitment as per rules of the respondent-corporation are “should possess Diploma in Civil Engineering or must have passed Draughtsman examination in full. Age should be below (30) years.” As such the petitioners do not possess the requisite qualification prescribed under the rules to hold the post of Draughtsman and they are not recruited to the said post as per the rules of the Corporation. The petitioners are also not entitled for regular pay scale since the regular category of Fieldman Grade-II in the executive hierarchy in Coffee Plantation Project is not applicable and such pay scale is not applicable to the contingent workers. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that as on today, the petitioners are graduates and there are various other posts available in the respondent-corporation for which they are entitled for absorption on regular basis. Under those circumstances, without expressing any opinion on merits, since it is not disputed that the petitioners have put in more than 29 years of service as of today and their services were already regularized in the category of contingency staff, the respondents are directed to consider the case of the petitioners for regularization as per the provisions of G.O.Ms.No.212, dated 22.4.1994 to any suitable post as per the qualifications possessed by the petitioners and pass appropriate orders within a period of three months from the date of receipt of a copy of this order. The writ petition is disposed of accordingly. No costs. ______________ C.V.RAMULU,J DECEMBER 16, 2010 Tsr