THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE L.NARASIMHA REDDY WRIT PETITION No.24430 of 2011 ORDER: The petitioner is working as a Tahsildar. He submitted an appeal to the respondent on 23.02.2011 in relation to the preparation of the seniority list for the post of Deputy Tahsildars. His grievance is that the appeal has not been disposed of so far and that he is put to hardship on account of the same. Heard the learned counsel for the petitioner and the learned Government Pleader for Revenue. The writ petition is not maintainable, since the petitioner has to avail the remedy before the A.P. Administrative Tribunal (for short ‘the Tribunal’). The learned counsel for the petitioner submits that Section 20 of the A.P. Administrative Tribunals Act (for short ‘the Act’) places a bar on an employee to avail the remedy before the Tribunal unless the departmental remedies are exhausted and no independent O.A. can be maintained for issuing direction to an appellate authority to dispose of the appeal. This approach cannot be countenanced. Section 15 of the Act confers exclusive jurisdiction upon the Tribunal in relation to every aspect of the services of a Government employee. That takes in its fold, the grievance as to non-disposal of the appeals also. Further, the prohibition contained under Section 20 of the Act is not absolute. If the petitioner is able to satisfy the Tribunal that his efforts to seek redressal in the appeal did not fructify, there is no reason why the Tribunal does not take that into account. Hence, the writ petition is dismissed, leaving it open to the petitioner to work out his remedies before the Tribunal. There shall be no order as to costs. _______________________ L.NARASIMHA REDDY,J Dt:30.08.2011. kdl