1 wp857.10 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY BENCH AT AURANGABAD WRIT PETITION NO.857 OF 2010 Laxman s/o Dattatraya Jadhav, Age: Major, Occ: Service, R/o. Jayakwadi Irrigation Project, Jayakwadi Colony, Parbhani & Another. ...PETITIONERS VERSUS The State of Maharashtra, through the Chief Secretary, Mantralaya, Mumbai 400 032 & Others. ...RESPONDENTS ... Mr. G.G. Kadam, Advocate for the petitioners. Mr. D.R. Kale, A.G.P. for respondents. ... CORAM: SMT. NISHITA MHATRE & S.S. SHINDE, JJ. DATE : 7TH APRIL, 2011 PER COURT : The prayers claimed in this petition are as follows : (B) Respondents/authorities may kindly be directed to create the 2 wp857.10 cadre of Irrigation Assistant by amalgamating the posts of Canal Inspector, Measurer and Daftari Karkoon in the line with the cadre of Civil Engineering Assistant. (C) The respondents, Authorities may kindly be directed to give all the service benefits and allowances to the proposed new cadre of Irrigation Assistant in line with the cadre of Civil Engineering Assistant with retrospective effect from the year 1992 irrespective of the servants, who have retired before filing of this Writ Petition. 2. These prayers cannot be granted by the Writ Court. We certainly cannot direct the State to create cadres or amalgamate posts in the writ jurisdiction. In our opinion, therefore, the petition deserves to be dismissed. 3. Apart from this, the petitioners are employees of the State and therefore, they ought not to have approach this Court and instead could 3 wp857.10 have invoked the jurisdiction of the Administrative Tribunal. The petition is dismissed. [S.S. SHINDE, J.] [SMT. NISHITA MHATRE, J.] sut/Apr11