IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM PRESENT : THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE P.N.RAVINDRAN THURSDAY, THE 4TH DECEMBER 2008 / 13TH AGRAHAYANA 1930 WP(C).No. 31910 of 2008(W) -------------------------- PETITIONER(S): --------------- SUSHEELA BAI.T.L., 53 YEARS VELIYIL VEEDU, KAITHAVANA, SANATHANAPURAM, ALAPPUZH BY ADV. SRI.SHEEJO CHACKO SRIA.G.UNNIKRISHNAN RESPONDENT(S): ------------------------- 1. STATE OF KERALA, REP.BY SECRETARY TO LOCAL SELF GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENT, SECRETARIAT, THIRUVANANTHAPURAM. 2. CHIEF ENGINEER, LOCAL SELF GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENT THIRUVANANTHAPURAM. 3. CHIEF ENGINEER, PWD, THIRUVANANTHAPURAM. GOVERNMENT PLEADER SMT.ANU SIVARAMAN THIS WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) HAVING COME UP FOR ADMISSION ON 04/12/2008, THE COURT ON THE SAME DAY DELIVERED THE FOLLOWING: P.N.RAVINDRAN, J. ====================================== W.P.(C)No. 31910 of 2008 ====================================== Dated this the 4th day of December 2008 JUDGMENT Heard Sri.Sheejo Chacko, the learned counsel appearing for the petitioner and Smt.Anu Sivaraman, the learned Government Pleader appearing for the respondents. 2. The petitioner, an Assistant Engineer in the Public Works Department was deployed to the Local Self Government Department by Ext.P2 Order dated 2.9.2008 issued by the second respondent and transferred and posted in the Block Development Office at Chalakkudy. At the time when Ext.P2 order was issued, the petitioner was serving at Thottappally in Alappuzha District. The petitioner submits that she has less than one year to retire from service and that seeking transfer to a station nearer to her home district, she has submitted Ext.P3 representation before the second respondent. When the Writ Petition came up for hearing today, the learned counsel for the petitioner submitted that as the guidelines stipulate that as far as possible Government employees shall be given a posting either in their home station or nearer to their home district if they have only less than two years to retire from service, the second respondent may be directed to consider Ext.P3 and take a decision thereon, within a time limit to be fixed by this Court. 3. The guidelines governing transfer and posting of W.P.(C)31910/2008 2 Government employees stipulate that as far as possible, no government employee who is to retire from service within two years shall be transferred out and shall be given a posting either in their home district or to a nearby station. The petitioner admittedly will retire from service in another 11 months. Such being the situation, she is entitled to be given a posting either in her home district or in an adjacent station. As the petitioner has already moved the second respondent seeking a convenient transfer, I dispose of the Writ petition with a direction to the second respondent to consider the request made by the petitioner in Ext.P3 and pass orders thereon, within one month from the date on which the petitioner produces a copy of this judgment. P.N.RAVINDRAN, JUDGE css/