HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE NOOTY RAMAMOHANA RAO Writ Petition No. 32143 of 1998 Date: 21.01.2008 Between: I. Satyanarayana Raju & others … Petitioners and State of Andhra Pradesh, Rep. by its Principal Secretary to Government, Education Department, Hyderabad & others … Respondents O R D E R: The petitioners are all Lecturers who are working in the 3rd respondent college. They have solicited directions to the respondents in this writ petition to grant the benefits under the Career Advancement Scheme duly reckoning the period of service rendered by them against un-aided posts in the college, after declaring clause iv of para 2 of G.O. Ms. No. 41 Education (UE-II) Department dated 12.02.1998 as illegal. Before I proceed further to consider the merits of the matter, it is appropriate to notice that the State Legislature has enacted the Andhra Pradesh Aided Collegiate and Technical Education Employees (Regulation of Pay) Act, 2006 (Act No. 26 of 2006). Section 3 of the said Act has specifically dealt with the Career Advancement Scheme and set out that the same shall be limited to the quantum of grant-in-aid sanctioned to the post held by the teacher. In the face of Act No. 26 of 2006, unless the petitioners herein bring about a valid challenge, the relief prayed for by them in the present writ petition cannot be granted. Hence, reserving the liberty to the petitioners to challenge the validity of the provisions of Act No.26 of 2006, the present writ petition is dismissed without costs. (NOOTY RAMAMOHANA RAO, J) January 21, 2008 ksld