IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM PRESENT : THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE P.N.RAVINDRAN WEDNESDAY, THE 12TH AUGUST 2009 / 21ST SRAVANA 1931 WP(C).No. 22903 of 2009(G) --------------------------------------- PETITIONER(S): ------------------------ DR.T.R.MAYA,HOMOEO MEDICAL OFFICER, GOVERNMENT HOMOEO DISPENSARY,VEZHAPRA,ALAPPUZHA DISTRICT. BY ADVS.MR.GOPAKUMAR R.THALIYAL MR.N.P.PRAJEESH RESPONDENT(S): ---------------------------- 1. THE DIRECTOR OF HOMOEOPATHY, THIRUVANANTHAPURAM. 2. STATE OF KERALA,REPRESENTED BY THE PRINCIPAL SECRETARY,HEALTH DEPARTMENT,GOVERNMENT SECRETARIAT,THIRUVANANTHAPURAM. R1 & R2 BY GOVT. PLEADER SMT. SNU SIVARAMAN THIS WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) HAVING COME UP FOR ADMISSION ON 12/08/2009, THE COURT ON THE SAME DAY DELIVERED THE FOLLOWING: tss P.N.RAVINDRAN, J. ----------------------------- W.P(C) No.22903 of 2009-G ------------------------------ Dated this the 12th day of August, 2009. J U D G M E N T Heard Sri.Gopakumar R.Thaliyal, the learned counsel appearing for the petitioner and Smt.Anu Sivaraman, the learned Senior Government Pleader appearing for the respondents. 2. The petitioner entered service as Pharmacist in the Homeopathy Department in the year 1996. Later she was promoted to the category of Homeo Medical Officer. She submits that when applications were invited for general transfer during the year 2009 she had submitted Ext.P1 application requesting for transfer to Government Homeo Dispensaries in Kollam District. She also states that though in Ext.P2 draft transfer order published by the Director of Homeopathy, it was proposed to transfer her to Government Homeo Dispensay at Melila in Kollam District, when Ext.P3 final transfer order was issued, the petitioner was transferred to Government Homeo Dispensary, Vezhapra in Alappuzha District. The petitioner has filed Ext.P4 representation before the Director of Homeopathy, pointing out that eversince her appointment, she was not worked for even a single day in Kollam District and requesting that taking note of the outstation service rendered by her, she may be given a posting in Kollam District. W.P(C) No.22903 of 2009-G 2 3. When this writ petition came up for admission today, Sri.Gopakumar R.Thaliyal, the learned counsel appearing for the petitioner submitted that vacancies of Medical Officer, Homeopathy are likely to arise shortly in the Government Homeo Dispensaries at Chadayamangalam and Adichanelloor and that leaving open the contentions on the merits, the Director of Homeopathy may be directed to consider whether the petitioner can be accommodated in the said vacancies. The learned Government Pleader submitted that if as claimed by the petitioner vacancies are likely to arise, the Director of Homeopathy will certainly consider whether the petitioner can be accommodated in one of the said vacancies. In that view of the matter I dispose of this writ petition with a direction to the Director of Homeopathy to consider the request made by the petitioner in Ext.P4 representation and to decide whether the petitioner can be accommodated in the vacancies which are likely to arise in the Government Homeo Dispensaries at Chadayamangalam and Adichanelloor. A decision in that regard shall be taken expeditiously and in any event before the said vacancies are filled up. Sd/- P.N.RAVINDRAN JUDGE //True Copy// ab PA to Judge