THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE RAMESH RANGANATHAN WRIT PETITION NO. 36721 OF 1998 Date: 28.01.2008 Between: Vadlamudi Nalini. … Petitioner and The State of A.P. rep., by its Secretary, Education Department Services-IV, Secretariat Buildings, Hyderabad and three others. … Respondents. THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE RAMESH RANGANATHAN WRIT PETITION NO. 36721 OF 1998 ORDER: Petitioner, an Arts graduate, and having qualified in the B.Ed examination, sought appointment in the second respondent school. Consequent on the death of her mother on 04.11.1992 she submitted an application on 13.10.2003 seeking appointment on compassionate grounds which was rejected by the second respondent on 21.12.1993. Aggrieved thereby, she submitted a representation to the District Educational Officer who, by proceedings dated 17.11.1995, directed the second respondent to consider her case as per the rules in vogue. Petitioner would contend that this order of the District Educational Officer has not been acted upon by the second respondent and that the second respondent ought to be directed to provide her appointment on compassionate grounds. The scheme, of appointment on compassionate grounds, was made applicable to employees working in Government departments vide G.O.Ms. No. 612 GAD, dated 30.10.1991. This scheme, of compassionate appointment, was extended mutandis- mutandus to employees working in aided/zilla praja parishad/municipal schools vide G.O. Ms. No. 30 dated 01.02.1994. As on the date on which the petitioner’s mother died on 4.11.1992 or on the date when the petitioner submitted an application on 13.10.2003, seeking appointment on compassionate grounds in second respondent school which is an aided institution, the scheme for compassionate appointment, vide G.O.Ms. No. 30 dated 01.02.1994, was not in force having been extended much later on 01.02.1994. Since there was no scheme for compassionate appointment on the date on which the petitioner had initially sought appointment on compassionate grounds, the action of the second respondent in not providing her compassionate appointment cannot be faulted. The writ petition fails and is, accordingly, dismissed. _______________________________ Date: 28.01.2008 RAMESH RANGANATHAN, J MRKR