THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE RAMESH RANGANATHAN WRIT PETITION No.10841 of 1998 Date: 23.02.2010 Between: B. Krishnaiah. … Petitioner and The Govt. of A.P. rep., by its Principal Secretary, Education Dept., Secretariat Buildings, Hyderabad and three others. … Respondents. THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE RAMESH RANGANATHAN WRIT PETITION No.10841 of 1998 ORDER: The relief sought for in this writ petition is to declare the action of the respondents in not treating the period from 14.12.1970 to 31.03.1975 as Grant-in-aid service, as illegal, arbitrary and violative of Article 14 and 16 of the Constitution of India and for a consequential direction to the respondents to treat the said period as Grant-in-aid service and release all the benefits accrued thereupon. The petitioner was selected by a duly constituted selection committee on 10.12.1970. He was appointed as a lecturer in Commerce in the 4th respondent college, in a vacanay caused due to the resignation of Sri B. Hanumantha Rao who had worked in an aided post, in the U.G.C. scale of pay of Rs.300-600. He joined service on 14.12.1970 and his services were regularized by the proceedings of the 4th respondent dated 23.07.1985. He was designated as a Reader in Commerce by the 2nd respondent with effect from 05.04.1996, and the revised scales of pay, in G.O.Ms. No.1072 dated 26.11.1976 was extended to him. These UGC pay scales were again revised in the year 1986 with effect from 01.01.1980 in G.O.Ms. No.520 dated 15.12.1988 which also provided for a Career Advancement Scheme and a Selection Grade Scale for those lecturers who had completed 8 years and 16 years service respectively. The petitioner would contend that he was eligible for the benefits of the Career Advancement Scheme, under G.O.Ms. No.520, if his entire service as a lecturer was reckoned. His grievance is that, while he was given the benefit of Career Advancement Scheme counting his service from 01.04.1975 as his post was admitted to Grant-in-aid on that day, he was entitled to have his service treated as Grant-in-aid service from 14.12.1970 as he was selected by a duly constituted selection committee and was appointed as a Lecturer in a Grant-in-aid post. While the post he held as a lecturer was admitted to Grant- in-aid from 01.04.1975, the petitioner’s claim is that the period from 14.12.1970 to 31.03.1975 should also be treated as Grant-in- aid service. The petitioner, in effect, seeks a mandamus from this Court directing the Government to extend Grant-in-aid to the post he held as a lecturer from the date he joined in the said post on 14.12.1970. A Division bench of this Court in Y. Sidda Reddy Vs. Govt. of A.P.[1], following the judgment of the Supreme Court in State of Assam v. Ajit Kumar Sarma[2] held that no mandamus could be issued at the behest of a teacher that Grant-in-aid be extended to the post in which he was working. The relief sought for in this writ petition cannot, therefore, be granted. The Writ Petition fails and is, accordingly, dismissed. No costs. Date:23.02.2010 ____________________________ RAMESH RANGANATHAN,J MRKR [1] 2006(1) ALT 354 [2] AIR 1965 SC 1196