IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM PRESENT : THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE S.SIRI JAGAN TUESDAY, THE 12TH APRIL 2011 / 22ND CHAITHRA 1933 WP(C).No. 12014 of 2011(B) -------------------------- PETITIONER(S): --------------- M.KARTHIKEYAN,3RD GRADE OVERSEER (RETIRED),IRRIGATION DEPARTMENT,RESIDING AT GOPIKA,T.C.NO.75/778,RAMANVILAKAM,MOONAM MANACKAL, ANAYARA(PO),THIRUVANANTHAPURAM-695029. BY ADV. SRI.GOPAKUMAR R.THALIYAL SRI.P.R.PRATEESH RESPONDENT(S): --------------- 1. STATE OF KERALA,REPRESENTED BY THE PRINCIPAL SECRETARY TO GOVERNMENT,WATER RESOURCES DEPARTMENT (IRRIGATION DEPARTMENT),GOVERNMENT SECRETARIAT,THIRUVANANTHAPURAM-695001. 2. THE CHIEF ENGINEER,IRRIGATION AND ADIMINSTRATION,THIRUVANANTHAPURAM-695033. GOVT. PLEADER SHRI.ANTONY MUKKATH THIS WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) HAVING COME UP FOR ADMISSION ON 12/04/2011, THE COURT ON THE SAME DAY DELIVERED THE FOLLOWING: S.SIRI JAGAN, J. ================== W.P.(C).No. 12014 of 2011 ================== Dated this the 12th day of April, 2011 J U D G M E N T The petitioner is a 3rd Grade Overseer in the Irrigation Department of the Government of Kerala. The petitioner has been granted higher grade. But the petitioner submits that the petitioner has not been given monetary benefits with effect from the date when higher grade became due to him. Instead he has been given notional higher grade. The petitioner has filed Ext.P12 representation before the 1st respondent in this regard. For the present, the petitioner would be satisfied with a direction to the 1st respondent to consider and pass orders on Ext.P12 expeditiously. 3. Having heard the learned Government Pleader also, I dispose of this writ petition with a direction to the 1st respondent to consider and pass orders on Ext.P12, as expeditiously as possible, at any rate, within three months from the date of receipt of a certified copy of this judgment, after affording an opportunity of being heard to the petitioner. It would be open to the petitioner to rely on Ext.P10 or any other materials in support of the petitioner's case, the applicability of which, shall also be considered by the 1st respondent. Sd/- sdk+ S.SIRI JAGAN, JUDGE ///True copy/// P.A. to Judge 2