IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) FRIDAY, THE TWENTY EIGHTH DAY OF MARCH TWO THOUSAND AND EIGHT PRESENT THE HON'BLE MRS JUSTICE T.MEENA KUMARI and THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE S. ASHOK KUMAR WRIT PETITION NO : 6612 of 2008 Between: Yashasri Varal, W/o. Srikanth Parkhe Government High School, Hindi Medium, Eashaoh No.3, Khagaznagar Mandal, Adilabad District. ..... PETITIONER AND 1 The Government of A.P., rep. by its Principal Secretary, Education (SE.Ser.II) Department, Secretariat, Hyderabad. 2 The Commissioner and Director of School Education, Saifabad, Hyderabad. 3 The District Educational Officer, Adilabad District at Adilabad. .....RESPONDENTS Petition under Article 226 of the constitution of India praying that in the circumstances stated in the Affidavit filed herein the High Court will be pleased to issue a writ, order or direction more particularly one in the nature of writ of Certiorari, calling for the records relating to and connected with the orders of the Hon'ble Tribunal passed in O.A.No.1961/2008, dt. 12.03.2008 and quash the same and also declare the inaction of the respondents in not considering the case of the petitioner for the post of School Assistant (English) in Telugu Medium Schools, as illegal, arbitrary, discriminatory, contrary to the rules apart from violation of Art. 14 of the Constitution of India, and consequently direct the respondents to consider the case of the petitioner for promotion to the post of School Assistant (English) in Telugu Medium Schools with all consequential benefits and also award exemplary costs against the respondents. Counsel for the Petitioner: MR.N.SIVA REDDY Counsel for the Respondents: GP FOR EDUCATION The Court made the following : THE HON’BLE Smt. JUSTICE T.MEENA KUMARI AND THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE S. ASHOK KUMAR W.P. No. 6612 of 2008 O R D E R: (Per THE HON’BLE Smt. JUSTICE T.MEENA KUMARI) This writ petition is filed against the order dated 12.3.2008 passed by the A.P. Administrative Tribunal in O.A. No. 1961 of 2008. Heard the learned counsel for the parties and perused the material available on record. By the impugned order, the Tribunal dismissed the O.A. filed by the petitioner herein seeking a direction to the respondents to consider her case to the post of School Assistant (English) in Telugu Medium Schools. The basis for dismissing the said O.A. by the Tribunal was the representation made by the learned Government Pleader that as on that date there were no rules existing governing the said post. However, learned counsel for the petitioner invited our attention to the Memo issued by the Secretary to Government, Government of Andhra Pradesh, Education (SE-SER-II) Department vide Memo No.2654/Ser-II-1/2006 dated 22.8.2006 in which it is clarified that SGT in Hindi Medium Schools can be considered for promotion to the post of School Assistant in Telugu Medium with the qualification ‘Visaradha’ in Telugu Certificate from Andhra Saraswatha Parishad, Hyderabad as it is equivalent to Metric or Higher Secondary Certificate as per the clarification issued by the General Administration Department in Notification 2554/GAD-S1/41/ED/53 dated 21.4.1953. It is further submitted by the learned counsel for the petitioner that the petitioner possesses the qualification prescribed in the abovementioned memo to be considered for promotion to the post of School Assistant in Telugu Medium. It is further submitted that the petitioner has already been promoted as School Assistant. In view of the above, the respondents are directed to permit the petitioner to appear in the next counselling for posting her as School Assistant in Telugu Medium keeping in view Memo No.2654/Ser-II-1/2006 dated 22.8.2006. The writ petition is accordingly allowed to the extent indicated above. T. MEENA KUMARI, J. S. ASHOK KUMAR, J. Date: 28-03-2008. MVB.