IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD THE HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE B.PRAKASH RAO AND THE HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE RAMESH RANGANATHAN WRIT PETITION NO. 16254 OF 1998 Dated: 11th July, 2006 Between: M.A. Rama Krishna and another Petitioners AND The Government of Andhra Pradesh, Rep. by its Secretary, Finance & Planning Department, Secretariat, Hyderabad, and another Respondents ORDER: (Per the Hon’ble Sri Justice B.Prakash Rao) Heard Mr. G.V. Shivaji, learned counsel for the petitioners and the Government Pleader for Finance and Planning, for the respondent No.1. The two writ petitioners herein inter alia seek writ of mandamus assailing the Rules framed in GO Ms. No. 42 Finance and Planning Department dated 11.6.1991, contending that deletion of Commerce Graduation, as the minimum prescribed qualification, for the appointment to the post of Assistant Statistical Officer, is not within the domain of the first respondent and necessarily should include Commerce Graduation as one of the required qualification. Though the petitioners seek to canvass several grounds, but the Administrative Tribunal did not find favour with the petitioners and held that the petitioners have no vested right to claim that the change in the qualification for recruitment to the post of Assistant Statistical Officer, has caused prejudice to them and dismissed the application. We entirely agree with the findings of the Tribunal. It is for the concerned authorities to prescribe, amend, delete or add the qualifications for recruitment not any post and the Tribunal as well as this court, do not interfere with such power. Consequently, the writ petition fails and is accordingly dismissed. No order as to costs. ___________________ B.PRAKASH RAO, J. ____________________________ RAMESH RANGANATHAN, J. Date 11-7-2006 MAS