THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE C.V.RAMULU W.P.No.28966 of_1995 Dated:07.11.2006 Between 1.D.Jagannadham and others. …..Petitioners and 1. The Government of Andhra Pradesh rep., by its Principal Secretary Women and Child Welfare Department, Secretariat Buildings, Hdyerabad And others. …Respondents THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE C.V.RAMULU W.P.No.28966 of_1995 ORDER: This writ petition is filed seeking a Mandamus to direct the respondents to pay salaries of the petitioners from August, 1995 till date, forthwith and continue to pay the same with all attendant benefits and pass such other order. It is the case of the petitioners that they were appointed in the 2nd respondent organization after under going regular process of selection being sponsored through employment exchange etc and put on regular pay scale. Their services have already been regularized. For the last four months preceding the writ petition, the respondents have not paid salaries. They have exhausted all their resources and some of them are on the verge of starvation. Hence, they filed this writ petition seeking the above direction. While admitting the writ petiton, it was ordered that the respondents shall pay salaries for the current month of November, 1995 when it becomes due. Learned counsel for the respondents placed before this Court a Judgment rendered by a Division Bench of this Court being W.A.No.671 of 1999 and batch dated 15.2.2006 wherein certain appeals filed against the 2nd respondent Corporation, have been dismissed. Learned counsel for the respondents herein further submitted that an Arbitrator has been appointed and the appellants in the Writ Appeal have already filed applications under Section 61 of the Cooperative Societies Act and the same are in progress. Therefore, learned counsel for the respondents states that the petitioner also may be permitted to avail the said opportunity subjecting themselves to the arbitration proceedings. I am in full agreement with the submission made by the learned counsel for the respondents that since the matter arises under the AP Co-operative Societies Act, proper course for the petitioners is to approach the arbitrator and file applications under Section 61 of the Act, ventilating their grievances. Therefore, writ petition is disposed of directing the petitioners to raise a dispute under Section 61 of the Act before the appointed arbitrator in this regard and work out their remedies. On raising such dispute by the petitioners, the arbitrator shall entertain and dispose of the same, within a period of four months, from the date of receipt of the application raising dispute as per law. No costs. ________ 7-11-2006 rkk