THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE P. SWAROOP REDDY WRIT PETITION No.8461 of 2001 ORDER: This writ petition is filed by the petitioner seeking a writ of Mandamus declaring the proceedings Rc.No.2159/Admn.IV.2/98 Commissioner and Director of Collegiate Education, Hyderabad dated 09.11.2000 and proceedings of the 2nd respondent dated 16.04.2001 as illegal and arbitrary and consequently direct the respondents to appoint the petitioner as lecturer in Urdu as per selection proceedings dated 06.04.2000. Heard. The case of the petitioner is that he is qualified to be appointed as lecturer in Urdu. The second respondent college called for applications for the post of lecturer in Urdu in March 2000. Accordingly, he applied to the post and he was issued call letter dated 25.03.2000 directing him to appear for interview scheduled on 06.04.2000. He attended the interview and did well. He was issued with letter dated 17.05.2000 by the 2nd respondent informing that he was selected for appointment as lecturer in Urdu and proposals have been sent to the Commissioner of Collegiate education for approval. But, later he received a letter dated 16.04.2001 that first respondent has rejected the request for approval of his appointment vide proceedings in Rc.No.2159/Admn.IV-2/98 dated 09.11.2000. The petitioner learnt that the first respondent has not approved the appointments on two grounds namely rule of reservation was not followed and that there was no government representative on the selection committee. The second respondent is a minority institution and the government under rules framed in G.O.Ms.No.526 Education (rules) Department dated 21.12.1988 constituted the selection committee in accordance with rule 8(1) of G.O.Ms.No.526 dated 21.12.1988. It is also the contention of the learned counsel for the petitioner that in muslim minority community, there would not be any scheduled caste or scheduled tribe candidates. Therefore following the rule of reservation in appointments as lecturers cannot be there, that the government issued G.O.Ms.No.154 education (SER-VI-1) Department dated 24.11.2000 for conversion of SC/ST/BC posts into OC. The contention of the learned counsel for the petitioner is that the petitioner was selected as lecturer as he was fully qualified and his name was proposed for approval, but the same was not approved by the first respondent Commissioner and Director of Collegiate Education for the reason that rule of reservation was not followed and there was no proper constitution of selection committee. With regard to the rule of reservation, the contention of the learned counsel for the petitioner is that government has issued G.O.Ms.No.154 dated 24.11.2000 exempting rule of reservation. This contention may be incorrect as the GO reads that the Commissioner of Collegiate Education requested for amending the statutory rules for reserving Urdu medium posts if SC/ST/BC/Women candidates are not available. Thus, the above order is applicable only to DSC-2000. Further more, the order shows, if only candidates belonging to SC/ST/BC are not available, the vacancy of DSC-2000 of Urdu medium shall be filled up with open category by reserving equal number of posts in the open category to SC/ST category in future. Thus, first of all the above GO is applicable only to the candidates of DSC 2000 and that too if only candidates belonging to SC/ST are not available that too by reserving posts for future recruitment for SC/STs, whereas the application of the petitioner was for the post of lecturer and not for recruitment under DSC-2000. Coming to the question of proper constitution of the selection committee, there is no material to show that the selection committee was properly constituted with representative of government on the committee. In these circumstances, I see no merits in the writ petition and the same is accordingly dismissed. No costs. ______________________ P. SWAROOP REDDY, J. 26th November 2010, Rns