THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE NOOTY RAMAMOHANA RAO WRIT PETITION No. 17191 of 2004 O R D E R: Heard Smt. N(P) Anjana Devi, learned counsel for the writ petitioner and Smt. P. Sharada, learned Standing Counsel for BSNL. This Writ Petition has been instituted by two individuals seeking a writ of mandamus for declaring the orders passed by the 1st respondent – Chief General Manager, Telecom, BSNL, Hyderabad on 09.07.2004 as bad in law. Both the petitioners are working in BSNL. Government of India, through a notification dated 31.10.2008, exercised the power available to them under sub-section (2) of Section 14 of the Administrative Tribunals Act, 1985 specifying 10th November 2008 as the date on and from which the provisions of sub-section (3) of Section 14 of the said Act shall apply to the organizations mentioned therein. Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited is one of the organizations that has been notified. Therefore, the jurisdiction to decide disputes concerning service matters of the employees of the BSNL has since been conferred upon the Central Administrative Tribunal. It is, therefore, appropriate that this Writ Petition should be transferred to the Central Administrative Tribunal Bench at Hyderabad, so as to enable the said Tribunal to decide this matter. Registry, to transmit the entire case record to the Registry of the Central Administrative Tribunal, within a period of ten days from today. ---------------------------------- (NOOTY RAMAMOHANA RAO, J) 16th June 2010 ksld