1 BEFORE THE MADURAI BENCH OF MADRAS HIGH COURT DATED: 14.11.2011 C O R A M THE HONOURABLE MR.JUSTICE T.RAJA W.P.(MD)No. 12935 of 2011 Chella Durai ... Petitioner Vs. The District Manager, Tamil Nadu State Marketing Corporation, Thanjavur District. ... Respondent Prayer: Writ Petition filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India to issue a Writ of Mandamus directing the respondent to consider petitioner's representation on 8.10.2011 for the prosecution of petitioner as a Supervisor in the respondent corporation and pass such further or other orders as this Court may deem fit and proper in the circumstances of the case. For Petitioner : Mr.A.R.Senthil Kumar For Respondent : Mr.M.Muniasamy O R D E R The petitioner Chelladurai has filed the present Writ Petition under Article 226 of Constitution of India seeking a writ of mandamus to direct the respondent to consider the petitioner's representation dated 8.10.2011 to promote the petitioner as a Supervisor in the respondent corporation by passing an appropriate order. 2. Mr.M.Muniasamy, learned counsel takes notice for the respondent. 3. It has been submitted by the learned counsel for the petitioner that while he was appointed in Shop No.7932 at Adu Thurai, he was not able to pay a sum of Rs.35,000/- as Security Deposit for getting Supervisor post and he was able to pay only Rs.15,000/- for getting only Salesman post, therefore, he was appointed as a Salesman. The grievance of the petitioner is that he is having pain in his knee and he was advised by his doctor not to stand the whole day, but the Salesman has to stand all the time and sometimes more than 10 hours. In view of the fact that the petitioner has completed B.A.(History)in May 2004 and now he is ready to pay a sum of Rs.35,000/- as Security Deposit for getting Supervisor post and for that, the petitioner has made representation dated 24.11.2005 stating that the doctor has advised him not to stand continuously for more than 10 hours daily otherwise it will affect his knee and another representation was sent on 8.10.2011 informing with the request that https://hcservices.ecourts.gov.in/hcservices/ 2 the petitioner is prepared to deposit a sum of Rs.35,000/- towards Security Deposit for getting the post of Supervisor. The said representation till date has not been considered. 4. Therefore, this Court without going into the merits of the case directs the respondent to consider the representations of the petitioner and pass orders on merits within a period of four weeks from the date of receipt of copy of this order. 5.With the above observation, this Writ Petition is disposed off. No costs. Sd/- Assistant Registrar(AS) /True Copy/ Sub Assistant Registrar To, The District Manager, Tamil Nadu State Marketing Corporation, Thanjavur District. +1cc to Mr.A.R.Senthilkumar, Advocate, Sr.No.39524 ses ssk/22.11.2011 /3c -2p/- W.P.(MD)No. 12935 of 2011 14.11.2011 https://hcservices.ecourts.gov.in/hcservices/