THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE NOUSHAD ALI WRIT PETITION NO.22143 OF 2001 Between : 1. B. Venkateswara Reddy, S/o. Veera Reddy, Shift Engineer, A.P. TRANSCO, 132/33, K.V. Sub Sttation, Vijayawada, Krishna District, and others. …... PETITIONERS And 1. A.P. Transmision Corporation Limited, rep. by its Managing Director, Vidyut Soudha, Somajiguda, Hyderabad, and others. …....RESPONDENTS Counsel for the petitioner: Sri A. Satya Prasad Counsel for the respondent: Sri S. Ravindranath S.C. for AP TRANSCO. The Court made the following. ORDER: The petitioners, claiming to have been engaged in service through a contract, have filed this writ petition against the Memo No.CE/TL&SS/VJA/Tech/F.151/D.No.704/2001 dated 1.08.2001 issued by the 2nd respondent-Chief Engineer, A.P. TRANSCO, Tower Lines and Sub Station (TL & SS), Gunadala, Vijayawada, prescribing the qualification required for the labour engaged by the contractor for operation of sub-stations, as illegal and to declare the said Memo as operative prospectively. A.P. Transmission Corporation Limited is an organization in the State, responsible for transmission of electrical power. In discharge of its functions, the Corporation awarded works contract through agreements to contractors registered with it having ‘A’ Grade Electrical Contractor Licences. Admittedly, the petitioners were engaged by such contractors in whose favour works contracts were awarded under the agreements entered into. In this writ petition, the petitioners contend that they hold diplomas in Electronics and Communication Engineering and in Mechanical Engineering, but do not hold diploma in Electrical Engineering or I.T.I. Electrician Grade Certificate. They plead that notwithstanding their not being qualified in Electrical Engineering or I.T.I. Electrician certificate, they are entitled to be continued to work in the electrical sub-stations in respect of which the works contracts are awarded. The petitioners, therefore, challenge the Memo dated 1.08.2001 of the 2nd respondent, which has prescribed diploma in Electrical Engineering or I.T.I. Electrician Grade Certificate as the required qualifications for those working as operation assistants in the sub-stations. The writ petition is misconceived. Admittedly, the petitioners are not the employees working under the respondents. There is no employee – employer relationship between the petitioners and the respondents. The respondents are getting the works done through private contractors under the agreements entered into between them. Indisputably, the agreements stipulate the conditions relating to the qualifications of those engaged by the contractors to work in the establishments. Even as per the petitioners, they do not possess the required qualifications in electrical engineering or in I.T.I. Hence, it is not for the petitioners to insist prescription of qualifications suitable to their convenience. In that view of the matter, the impugned Memo is not assailable. The writ petition is accordingly dismissed. No costs. ________________ NOUSHAD ALI, J. 2nd December, 2010 Js.