IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD THURSDAY, THE SECOND DAY OF DECEMBER TWO THOUSAND AND TEN PRESENT THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE K.C.BHANU WRIT PETITION No. 3400 OF 2001 Between : B.Balanarsu and others. ...PETITIONERS A N D The Principal, Regional Engineering College. …RESPONDENT THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE K.C. BHANU WRIT PETITION No. 3400 OF 2001 O R D E R: This writ petition is filed declaring the action of the respondent in not absorbing the petitioners against the regular vacancies of Assistant Engineer (Civil), Technical Assistants (Civil), Draughtsman and Tracer, as arbitrary and illegal. 2. Heard. 3. The short point involved for consideration in this writ petition is whether the services of the petitioners can be regularized by the respondent organization. 4. It is not in dispute that the petitioners were selected and joined the services of the respondent organization on 01.05.1989, on a consolidated salary of Rs.1,200/- per month. 5. Learned counsel for the petitioners contended that though the petitioners have completed twelve years of service in the respondent organization, till date their services have not been regularized. 6. On the other hand learned Standing Counsel for respondent contended that the services of the petitioners are governed as per the norms prescribed in G.O.Ms.No.212 Finance & Planning Department, dated 22.04.1994. Further, in para No.6 of the counter-affidavit filed by the respondent, it is stated as under: “The petitioner No.1 herein, as also the other petitioners, who were not eligible at that time, as per the aforesaid norms stipulated, could not therefore be absorbed in any post or vacancy in the service of Regional Engineering College, Warangal. The first petitioner’s temporary, tenure-based appointment on consolidated pay, commenced from 01.05.1989. He did not complete five years of service by the cut-off date viz., 25.11.1993. In view of the foregoing, the petitioner No.1’s tall claims, as though there was a post and that he was appointed in it etc., fall to the ground. He himself admits that, at the time of the alleged notification referred to by him in para-4 of his affidavit, there was no regular post of a supervisor in the respondent- college; Hence, in its routine daily notice No.25/89, the respondent-college clearly and specifically warned that any selection or appointment in pursuance thereof would be temporary, only be for a period of six months, and, on consolidated pay, at any given time. His own above admission refutes and repels his other statements. The above referred letter and G.Os, concurring with the approving of the appointments of as many as 42 persons in different posts, are herewith filed”. 7. Therefore, when the services of the petitioners do not fall within the scope and ambit of G.O.Ms.No.212 Finance & Planning Department, dated 22.04.1994, the question of regularizing their services does not arise. 8. Accordingly, the writ petition is dismissed. There shall be no order as to costs. _______________ K.C.BHANU. J DECEMBER 2, 2010. YVL THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE K.C. BHANU WRIT PETITION No. 3400 OF 2001 DATED : 02.12.2010