CWP No.5931/2011 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH CWP No.5931/2011 Date of decision:4.4.2011. Surender Singh ........Petitioner v. State of Haryana and others .......Respondents. Coram: Hon'ble Mr.Justice Jaswant Singh. Present:- Mr.Ajit Sihag,Advocate for the petitioner Jaswant Singh,J.(Oral) The petitioner, who is employed as a Veterinary Livestock Development Assistant (VLDA) in the Department of Animal Husbandry & Dairying Hisar has filed the instant petition under Article 227 of the Constitution praying for issuance of writ in the nature of mandamus directing the respondent/ State government to transfer the petitioner from his present place of posting to either of the three stated/preferred place of posting on the ground of being a couple case as well as physically handicapped person. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the wife of the petitioner is posted as a Clerk in the office of Child Development Project Officer (CDPO) Hisar and the pteitioner is posted as VLDA at Government Veterinary Dispensary, Badhawar, District Hisar i.e. About 50 kilometers away from is residence at Hansi and therefore, the petitioner who is suffering from 30% disability is put to great inconvenience while reaching his office and hence it is contended that in view of of the transfer policy dated 6.10.2004 (P3), the petitioner is entitled to be posted near his place of residence. The petitioner has submitted three preferred places of postings. After hearing learned counsel for the petitioner and perusing the pleadings, this Court finds that the writ petition is wholly devoid of any merit. It is apparent from the record that whenever the petitioner has been sought to be transferred out of District Hisar, he has been adjusted back and posted within the District Hisar. At the time of his CWP No.5931/2011 2 last posting in the year 2008, out of District Hisar, he had approached this Court by filing CWP No. 20246 of 2008 wherein the department was directed to treat the writ petition as a petition and the respondent department thereafter adjusted him at his present place of posting i.e. Government Veterinary Dispensary, Badhawar, district Hisar itself. It is further borne out from the disability certificate at Annexure P1 that the petitioner is reported to have 30% disability in respect of his right lower limb and hand meaning thereby that he has a slight limp, which in the opinion of this Court is not a disability to the extent that would prohibit him or substantially interfere in his travelling. Still further, it cannot be disputed that the instructions regarding the transfer policy do not vest an employee with enforceable right. In view of the above,finding no merit in this writ petition the same is hereby dismissed. 4.4.2011 (Jaswant Singh) joshi Judge