IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM PRESENT : THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE P.N.RAVINDRAN WEDNESDAY, THE 25TH MARCH 2009 / 4TH CHAITHRA 1931 WP(C).No. 2440 of 2009(M) ------------------------------------- PETITIONER: ------------------- DR.B.GOPAKUMAR, LECTURER (SELECTION GRADE), DEPARTMENT OF MALAYALAM, N.S.S COLLEGE, PANDALAM. BY ADVS. MR.S.MUHAMMED HANEEF MR.NAVA VARGHESE. RESPONDENTS: ------------------------ 1. UNIVERSITY OF KERALA, REP. BY ITS REGISTRAR, UNIVERSITY CAMPUS, THIRUVANANTHAPURAM. 2. DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF COLEGIATE EDUCATION, KOTTAYAM. 3. THE DIRECTOR OF COLLEGIATE EDUCATION, VIKAS BHAVAN, THIRUVANANTHAPURAM. R2 & R3 BY GOVERNMENT PLEADER MR. ANTONY MUKKATH, R1 BY ADV. MR.M.RAJAGOPALAN NAIR, SC, KERALA UTY., THIS WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) HAVING COME UP FOR ADMISSION ON 25/03/2009,THE COURT ON THE SAME DAY DELIVERED THE FOLLOWING: prv. P.N.Ravindran, J. ================== W.P.(C) No.2440 of 2009 ===================== Dated this the 25th day of March, 2009. JUDGMENT Heard Sri. S.Muhammed Haneef, the learned counsel appearing for the petitioner and Sri M.Rajagopalan Nair, the learned standing counsel appearing for the Kerala University. 2. The petitioner was appointed as Lecturer in Malayalam in the N.S.S. College, Pandalam on 5.2.1997 in a leave vacancy. He was thereafter appointed in a regular vacancy. The said appointment was approved. Later he was placed in the Senior Scale with effect from 21.8.1997 and still later in the Selection Grade with effect from 12.11.1999. The petitioner submits that tough his placement in the Selection Grade with effect from 12.11.1999 was approved by the University of Kerala by Ext.P1 order dated 15.5.2008 till date he has not been paid salary in the scale of pay applicable to the Selection Grade Lecturers. 3. A statement dated 5.3.2009 has been filed by the Deputy Director of Collegiate Education, Kottayam stating that though the proposal submitted by the Principal, N.S.S. College, Pandalam to approve the placement of the petitioner as Selection Grade Lecturer was received in time, the proposal was defective and that it was received back only on 14.1.2009. It is further stated that the placement of the petitioner in the WP(C) 2440/09 -: 2 :- Selection Grade has been approved and the decision communicated to the Principal in letter dated 26.2.2009. It is further stated that arrears of salary and allowances which the petitioner is entitled to receive as Selection Grade Lecturer with effect from 12.11.1999 will be admitted as soon as the arrear bill is received from the Principal. In the light of the statement filed by the Deputy Director of Collegiate Education, no further orders are called for in this Writ Petition except to direct that arrears of salary and allowances shall be disbursed to the petitioner expeditiously and in any event within two weeks from the date on which arrear bill is received from the Principal of the College. The Writ Petition is disposed of with the above direction. P.N.Ravindran, Judge. ess