HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE R. SUBHASH REDDY WRIT PETITION No.796 of 2008 Dated: 22-01-2008 Between: P.Satyanarayana Murthy. … Petitioner And The Visakhapatnam Port Trust, Visakhapatnam, rep. by its Chairman & another. … Respondents HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE R. SUBHASH REDDY WRIT PETITION No.796 of 2008 ORDER: This writ petition is filed by a Senior Assistant working in Visakhapatnam Port Trust, questioning Employment Notice No.7 of 2007, dated 7th of December 2007, by which, applications are invited from the eligible officers in major Ports/Central Government/State Government/Semi-Government/Public Sector Undertakings to fill up the post of Deputy Chief Vigilance Officer on deputation basis. 2. The petitioner is a supervisory cadre employee working as Senior Assistant in Railway Commercial Section, Traffic Department of Visakhapatnam Port Trust. It is the grievance of the petitioner that as per the report of the Pay Revision Committee for Port and Dock officers, the post of Chief Vigilance Officer alone can be filled on deputation basis and other officers and staff are to be filled up by drawing persons who are working in other Departments of the very Port Trust. Precisely, it is the case of the petitioner that asmuch as notified post by impugned notice is Deputy Chief Vigilance Officer, the recruitment cannot be by way of deputation from outside officers. 3. First of all, so far as the appointments are concerned, it is for the Port Trust, which is an independent authority, to fill up the vacancies as per the method of recruitment notified by them. The report of the Pay Revision Committee is only of recommendatory nature. Even as per the report, there is no positive direction which obligates the Port Trust to fill up the vacancies other than the Chief Vigilance Officer, only by considering the candidates from other Departments of the very Port Trust. The report merely says that the post of Chief Vigilance Officer will be filled up on deputation basis and other officers and staff under him, as far as possible, would be drawn from other Departments. The said Clause in the report will not come in the way of the Port Trust in considering the eligible candidates working in Central Government, State Government and Semi Government, etc. As the impugned notice is questioned only on the said ground, I do not find any valid ground to admit the writ petition, which is accordingly dismissed at the stage of admission. No order as to costs. _____________________________ JUSTICE R. SUBHASH REDDY 22nd January 2008 ajr