IN THE HIGH COURT OF HIMACHAL PRADESH SHIMLA CWP No. 515 of 2009. Date of Decision: 25.3.2009 Smt.Nirmal Sood …Petitioner Versus. State of H.P. & ors. .. Respondents. Coram: The Hon’ble Mr.Justice Deepak. Gupta, Judge. The Hon’ble Mr. Justice V.K. Ahuja, Judge. Whether approved for Reporting? No For the Petitioner(s): Mr.Surinder Sharma, Advocate. For the Respondent(s): Mr.R.K.Bawa, Advocate General with Mr. R.M. Bisht, Deputy Advocate General, for respondents No.1 to 4. Deepak Gupta, J.(oral) By means of this petition the petitioner who is working as Female Health Worker has challenged the order dated 17.2.2009 whereby she has been ordered to be transferred to Sub Centre Kanarthu ( Kangra) from Sub Centre Pathiar (Kangra). The main ground raised is that the petitioner was posted in Sub Centre Pathiar only on 18.9.2007. She has merely completed 1½ years there and therefore she could not have been transferred before completion of normal tenure of 3 years. It has been urged that this 2 order has been passed only to adjust respondent No.5 who had been earlier transferred to Kanarthu. We have perused the reply filed by the State and find that the petitioner throughout her service has remained in Kangra District. Earlier, the cadre in which she was working was a State cadre but she remained in Kangra. No doubt the petitioner has not completed her normal tenure at Pathiar but the record shows that she had been serving in places close to Kangra town throughout her service. No employee has a vested right to choose his/her place of posting. The policy of the Government is only in the nature of guidelines and an employee cannot claim as a right that he should be kept at one place for at least three years. There are no allegations of mala fides in the present case. We, therefore, find no merit in the petition which is accordingly rejected. There will be no order as to costs. ( Deepak Gupta ), Judge. March 25, 2009. ( V.K. Ahuja ), PV. Judge.