THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE C.V.RAMULU W.P.No.16427 of 2009 11-08-2009 Between: K.Sambasiva Rao ...Petitioner Vs. The State Public Information Officer and Joint Director, Commissioner of Collegiate Education, Hyderabad. ..Respondent THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE C.V.RAMULU W.P.No.16427 of 2009 ORAL ORDER: The case of the petitioner is that the Commissioner of Collegiate Education had permitted DAR College, Nuzvid, Krishna District for conducting selections to various posts including the post of Lecturer in English under S.T backlog quota vide proceedings L.Dis.No.4140/PCI-1/97 dated 18-09-1997. According to the petitioner, he was selected for the post of English lecturer under ST category vide proceedings dated 23.02-1998 by the duly constituted Selection Committee. The petitioner joined duty on 16-07-1998 but he was not given formal appointment order. However, after prolonged correspondence, he was given appointment order on 17-02-1999 and he joined duty as a lecturer on 16-07-1999 on regular basis. Further according to him, there was delay in issuing the appointment order. The Director of Collegiate Education in order to deny the benefits to the petitioner under ST backlog vacancy has given proceedings dated 04.07.2005 to the effect that the petitioner was selected and recruited under general procedure applicable to all. Therefore, the petitioner submitted a representation on 26-02-009 under the Right to Information Act,2005 duly paying the requisite fee to the Joint Director of Collegiate Education, who is recognized as a State Public Information Officer, requesting to furnish the information with all particulars and evidence to show that the petitioner was recruited under general procedure. According to the petitioner the said representation was not disposed of till date. Under those circumstances, without expressing any opinion on merits, the writ petition is disposed of at the stage of admission directing the respondent to dispose of the representation submitted by the petitioner expeditiously and in any event within a period of two (2) weeks from the date of receipt of a copy of this Order and pass appropriate orders in accordance with law. No costs. _____________ C.V.RAMULU,J 11th AUGUST 2009 *TSNR