IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM PRESENT : THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE P.N.RAVINDRAN THURSDAY, THE 3RD FEBRUARY 2011 / 14TH MAGHA 1932 WP(C).No. 2472 of 2011(H) ------------------------- PETITIONER(S): --------------- M/S.AKHILA FLOORINGS, REPRESENTED BY ITS PROPRIETOR, V.SUKUMARAN, RESIDING AT VALLANGHI, NENMARA, PALAKKAD-678 508. BY ADV. SRI.V.CHITAMBARESH, SENIOR ADVOCATE SRI.T.C.SURESH MENON SRI.JIBU P THOMAS SRI.P.S.APPU SRI.A.R.NIMOD SRI.C.A.ANOOP RESPONDENT(S): --------------- THE ASSISTANT LABOUR OFFICER, NENMARA, PALAKKAD-678 508. GOVERNMENT PLEADER SRI.BASANT BALAJI THIS WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) HAVING COME UP FOR ADMISSION ON 03/02/2011, THE COURT ON THE SAME DAY DELIVERED THE FOLLOWING: P.N.RAVINDRAN, J. ----------------------------------------- W.P(C).No.2472 of 2011 ----------------------------------------- Dated this the 3rd day of February, 2011 JUDGMENT The petitioner is engaged in the business of sale of flooring materials. He has engaged three registered workers to do the loading and unloading work in his establishment. Since the service of additional attached workers were found to be necessary the petitioner has engaged five other workers to do the loading and unloading work in his establishment. It is stated that the said five workers have filed applications seeking registration as headload workes under rule 26A of the Kerala Headload Workers Rules, 1981. The grievance voiced by the petitioner is that till date orders have not been passed thereon. In this writ petition the petitioner seeks a direction to the respondent to consider Exts.P2 to P6 applications and pass orders thereon expeditiously. 2. Sri.Basant Balaji, learned Government Pleader appearing for the respondent submitted on instructions that the originals of Exts.P2 to P6 were received only on 10.1.2011 and that under the W.P(C).No.2472 of 2011 -:2:- provisions of rule 26A of the Kerala Headload Workers Rules, the Assistant Labour Officer is bound to issue notice to the Chairman of the District Committee of the Kerala Headload Workers Welfare Board and the petitioner before passing orders on the applications. The learned Government Pleader submitted that the respondent will pass expeditious orders on Exts.P2 to P6 applications after following the prescribed procedure. In the light of the said submission, as the respondent has admittedly received Exts.P2 to P6 applications I dispose of the writ petition with a direction to the respondent to consider the same and pass orders thereon expeditiously and in any event within one month from the date on which the petitioner produces a certified copy of this judgment before him, after following the procedure prescribed in rule 26A of the Kerala Headload Workers Rules, 1981. P.N.RAVINDRAN, Judge. ahg. P.N.RAVINDRAN, J. --------------------------- W.P(C).No.2472 of 2011 ---------------------------- JUDGMENT 3rd February, 2011