HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE L. NARASIMHA REDDY WRIT PETITION No.2920 OF 2002 ORDER: Petitioners were employed as Typist and Driver, respectively, in the Fish Farmers Development Agency (for short ‘Agency’), Mahaboobnagar District. The Agency was being funded by the Central and the State Governments. However, it was directed to be closed in the year 1997. Petitioners approached this Court, by filing a writ, petition with a prayer to direct the respondents to absorb them in other service. It is in this context, that the 1st petitioner was absorbed as Typist in the District Co-operative Office on 29-11-2000 and the 2nd petitioner was absorbed as Driver in the Forest Department, Mahaboobnagar on 11-04-2001. They were relieved from the Agency on 21-08-2000. The grievance of the petitioners is that they were not paid salary between the dates of their relief from the Agency and absorption into the Government service. They claim corresponding relief in this connection. 2. Heard the learned counsel for the petitioners and the learned Government Pleader for Animal Husbandry. 3. It is not in dispute that the petitioners were borne on the cadre or rolls of the Agency. It is not a Department of Government, but, an agency created for certain purpose, under certain schemes. In the ordinary circumstances, with the closure of the Agency, the petitioners were to face retrenchment. However, taking compassionate view of the matter, the respondents herein have taken a decision to absorb them against the vacancies in the Government service. It is in this context that the 1st petitioner was absorbed / appointed as a Typist in the office of the District Cooperative Officer on 29-11-2000. So far as the 2nd petitioner is concerned, there was delay in such absorption on account of the fact that the Excise Superintendent, to whom he was referred, declined to take him for want of vacancy and he had to be allotted to the District Forest Office. 4. The application to pay salary to the petitioners by the Agency ceased with their relieve from the Agency on 21-08-2000. The respective departments, in which the petitioners were absorbed, would be under obligation to pay salary only from the dates of appointments. Neither of them can be required to pay the salary during which the petitioners were out of service, may be in the process of being absorbed. This Court does not find any basis to grant relief to the petitioners. 5. Hence, the Writ Petition is dismissed. There shall be no order as to costs. ____________________ L. NARASIMHA REDDY, J December 22, 2010. KTL