IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) TUESDAY, THE TENTH DAY OF JUNE TWO THOUSAND AND EIGHT PRESENT THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE L.NARASIMHA REDDY WRIT PETITION No. 11779 of 2008 Between: G.S. Sadguna, W/o. Dr. N. Vijaya Bhaskara Rao, Andhra Pradesh Social Welfare Residential School (Girls), G.V. Gudem, Nalgonda, Nalgonda District. ..... PETITIONER AND 1 The Secretary, Andhra Pradesh Social Welfare Residential Educational Insitutions Society, Masab Tank, Hyderabad. 2 The Chairman, Andhra Pradesh Social Welfare Residential Educational Institutions Society and Principal Secretary to Government, Government of Andhra Pradesh, Social Welfare Department, A.P. Secretariat, Hyderabad. 3 The Government of Andhra Pradesh, Rep. by its Secretary, G.A. Department, A.P. Secretariat, Hyderabad. 4 The Principle, A.P. Social Welfare Residential School, G.V. Gudem, Nalgonda District. 5 The Principle, AP Social Welfare Residential School, Vinukonda, Guntur District. .....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 an appropriate Writ, Order or Direction, more particularly one in the nature of Writ of Mandamus, cal for the records leading to issuance of impugned proceedings vide Rc.No. CO.I/Z.III/10608/08 Dt. 01/06/2008, declare the same as illegal and arbitrary and the one passed in violation of policy of Government issued Vide G.O.Rt.823 Dt. 31/10/2007 and consequently set aside the same, duly directing the respondents to consider and pass appropriate proceedings on the representation dt. 04/06/2008 and 07/06/2008 of the petitioner seeking zonal transfers and to grant such other relief or reliefs. Counsel for the Petitioner: MR.K.RAM REDDY Counsel for the Respondents: GP FOR SOCIAL WELFARE The Court made the following ORDER: The petitioner was appointed on contractual basis as a Resident Teacher in the year 1997. In the receipt past, her services were regularized, vide proceedings, dated 10.10.2007. The initial appointment of the petitioner was in a place in Zone-III. In between, she came to be transferred to different places and at present, she is working in an institution, the fourth respondent, at G.V.Gudem, Nalgonda District. The petitioner states that her husband is also working at Nalgonda and it was only in the recent past, she was transferred to that place. It is urged that the transfer to Vinukonda, Guntur District in Zone-III is untenable in law, inasmuch as the Andhra Pradesh Public Employment (Organization of Local Cadres and Regulation of Direct Recruitment) Order, 1975 (for short ‘the Presidential Order’) does not apply to the services in the first respondent institution. Certain other grounds are also urged. Heard the learned counsel for the petitioner and the learned Standing Counsel for the respondents. The petitioner was continuing as a contractual employee till 10.10.2007. In pursuance of the orders issued by the Government in G.O.Ms.No.59 Social Welfare (RS-I) Department, dated 10.08.2007, the contractual employees in the first respondent institution were regularized, subject to certain conditions. There was a categorical mention that the Presidential Order shall be implemented while regularizing the services of contractual employees. It was in that context that the petitioner came to be regularized as a Resident Teacher in Zone-III. Since the regularization took place during the middle of the academic year, the petitioner was continued at the place where she was working before the academic year 2008-2009 commenced. The first respondent has undertaken the transfers of employees all over the State, duly holding counseling for that purpose. Except pleading personal hardship, the petitioner is not able to point out any legal infirmity in the order of transfer. It hardly needs any mention that the transfer is incidence of service and no employee had any vested right to insist that he or she must be continued or posted at a particular place. At any rate, the petitioner cannot take any exception to her transfer to the Zone in which her services have been regularized. This Court does not find any basis to interfere with the order of transfer. The writ petition is accordingly dismissed. There shall be no order as to costs. __________________ L.NARASIMHA REDDY,J Dt:10.06.2008. kdl ..... REGISTRAR // TRUE COPY // SECTION OFFICER To 1.2CCs to 2.2CD copies Form-NIC-OGS/WP{SPJS}