THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE C.V. RAMULU WRIT PETITION No.26459 of 2007 DATED: 13.12.2007 Between: R.V. Ramana .. Petitioner And Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation, Musheerabad, Hyderabad, rep. by its Managing Director and others. .. Respondents THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE C.V. RAMULU WRIT PETITION No.26459 of 2007 ORDER: The petitioner, who worked as Driver in A.P. State Road Transport Corporation, retired from service on 27.01.2004, on medical grounds. The Corporation issued a Circular, dated 08.10.2003, providing for certain benefits to the drivers, who retired on medical grounds. The petitioner was denied the benefits under the said Circular, on the ground that the scheme framed therein was not approved by the Government, by that time. The petitioner states that the Government had since accorded approval and the same was intimated through another Circular dated 26.08.2005, he is also entitled for those benefits. The writ petition is filed claiming the benefit under the Circular dated 08.10.2003. Heard the learned counsel for the petitioner. The learned Standing Counsel for the Corporation, on instructions, submits that in view of the approval accorded by the Government and the Circular, dated 26.08.2005, the case of the petitioner could be considered for extending the benefits. The petitioner was not extended the benefit under Circular, dated 08.10.2003, on the ground that the Government did not accord approval for the scheme therein. Such an approval has since been accorded. A perusal of the Circular, dated 26.08.2005, discloses that the benefits provided for under the Scheme were made extendible to those Drivers, who retired subsequent to that date. Therefore, the writ petition is disposed of, directing the respondents to finalize the issue relating to the extension of benefit provided for under Circular, dated 08.10.2003, to the petitioner, within a period of two months from the date of receipt of a copy of this order. No order as to costs. _________________ JUSTICE C.V. RAMULU 13th December, 2007. IBL