IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM PRESENT : THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE V.GIRI THURSDAY, THE 24TH JANUARY 2008 / 4TH MAGHA 1929 WP(C).No. 2862 of 2008(N) ------------------------- PETITIONER: ------------ 1. DR.JOSEPH ISAAC, S/O.PROF.M.ISAAC, AGED 50 YEARS, CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST, MEDICAL COLLEGE HOSPITAL, CALICUT. (PRESIDENT, KERALA GOVERNMENT CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGISTS ASSOCIATION) 2. DR.G.RAJAKUMAR, S/O.GOPINATHAN NAIR, AGED 40 YEARS, CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST, GOVERNMENT DISTRICT HOSPITAL MANJERI, MALAPPURAM DISTRICT (TEASURER KERALA GOVERNMENT CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGISTS ASSOCIATION) BY ADV. SRI.V.A.MUHAMMED SRI.K.E.HAMZA RESPONDENT: ------------- THE STATE OF KERALA REPRESENTED BY ITS SECRETARY TO GOVERNMENT, HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE DEPARTMENT, SECRETARIAT, TRIVANDRUM. BY GOVERNMENT PLEADER SRI. EBJOY CHANDRAN THIS WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) HAVING COME UP FOR ADMISSION ON 24/01/2008, THE COURT ON THE SAME DAY DELIVERED THE FOLLOWING: V.GIRI, J ------------------- W.P.(C).2862/2008 -------------------- Dated this the 24th day of January, 2008 JUDGMENT Petitioners are working as Clinical Psychologists in the Department of Health Services. They seek to raise an issue which is applicable to persons working as Clinical psychologists in the Department of Psychiatry. According to the petitioners, there should be a separate department for Clinical Psychology. Petitioners submit that there should be bifurcation of the said two faculties and there ought to be separate departments in the Health Services for Psychiatry and Clinical Psychology. 2. According to me, these are matters which fall within the domain of the Government exclusively and therefore, it is upto the government to take a decision in this regard. Kerala Government Clinical psychologists association has brought this to the notice of the Government under Exts.P12 and P13. 3. After having heard the learned counsel for the petitioner and the learned Government Pleader, writ W.P.(C).2862/2008 2 petition is disposed of directing the respondent to look into Exts.P12 and P13, hear one among the petitioners and take a decision on the plea of establishing separate departments for Clinical psychology and psychiatry, within a period of four months from the date of receipt of a copy of this judgment. V.GIRI, Judge mrcs W.P.(C).2862/2008 3