IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) FRIDAY, THE TENTH DAY OF JUNE TWO THOUSAND AND FIVE PRESENT THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE S.ANANDA REDDY WRIT PETITION NO: 4769 of 2005 Between: 1 A.Krishna Reddy S/o. Muni Reddy Telecom Mechanic O/o. SDE Extl- Tirupathi 2 V.Subramanyam Raju S/o. Venkata Raju Telecom Mechanic O/o. SDE (G), Ekambarakuippam 3 P.Reddappa S/o. P.Siddaiah O/o. SDE (G), Ekambarakuippam 4 R.V. Ramana S/o. R.Chinnabba Telecom Mechanic O/o. EDEP, Piler Chittoor Dt. 5 C.Krishnaiah S/o. C.Asamy Telecom Mechanic O/o. SDEOO, Kuppam Chittoor Dt. 6 T.Raveendrudu S/o. T.Desaiah Chetty Telecom Mechanic O/o. SDE (G) Ekambarakuippam Chittor Dt. 7 K.S. Nagaratnam S/o. K.Subbaiah Telecom Mechanic O/o. SDE MDF Tirupati Chittor Dt. 8 A.Shiva Kumar S/o. A.S.N. Murthy Telecom Mechanic O/o. SDE MDF Tirupati Chittor Dt. 9 K.Rama Rao S/o. K.Venkatappaiah Telecom Mechanic O/o. SDE West Tirupati Chittor Dt. 10 P.Shankar rao S/o. Venkateswarlu Telecom Mechanic O/o. SDE West Tirupati Chittor Dt. 11 S.Mahaboob Basha S/o. Meerjan Saheb Telecom Mechanic O/o. SDE Extl-II Tirupati Chittor Dt. 12 P.Sampath S/o. Subbarayudu Telecom Mechanic O/o. SDE Extnl-II Tirupati Chittor Dt. 13 E.Jayalakshmi W/o. Nagama Naidu Telecom Mechanic O/o. SDE OBC Tirupati Chittor Dt. 14 V.SRINIVASULU S/o. Babu Naidu Telecom Mechanic O/o. SDE Extl-I Tirupati Chittor Dt. 15 S. Muniraja S/o.Chengaiah Telecom Mechanic O/o. SDE Central Tirupati Chittor Dt. 16 Sk. Nanne Saheb S/o. Sk. Nanne Sabeb Telecom Mechanic O/o. SDEP Renigunta Chittor Dt. 17 Y.Bhaskarnaidu S/o. Y.Krishnama Naidu Telecom Mechanic O/o. Telephone Exchange Korlagunta Chittor Dt. 18 P.Venkateswarlu S/o. P.Subbaiah Telecom Mechanic O/o. Telephone Exchange Korlagunta Chittor Dt. 19 T.Ananda Naidu S/o. T.Lakshmaiah Telecom Mechanic O/o. SDE (G) PALAMANER Chittor Dt. 20 B.Lakshmareddy S/o. B.Rami Reddy Telecom Mechanic O/o. SDE (G) Pakala Chittor Dt. 21 V.Venkatamuni S/o. V>Buchipillai Telecom Mechanic O/o. SDEP Chittor Dt. 22 C.Punyakoti S/o. C. Deveeraja Nattar Telecom Mechanic O/o. SDE (G) Aragonda Chittor Dt. 23 B.Seshubabu S/o. Muniratnam Telecom Mechanic O/o. SDOP Chittor Dt. 24 R.V. Damodar babu S/o. R.Venkateswarlu Telecom Mechanic O/o. SDOP Chittor Dt. 25 K.Ramaiah Chetty S/o. K.Muneswamy Chetty Telecom Mechanic O/o. SDO(G) Chittor Dt. 26 S.Rani W/o. S.Kuppaiah Telecom Mechanic O/o. SDOP Chittor Dt. 27 G.Panduranga naidu S/o. Govinda Swamy Telecom Mechanic O/o. SDOP Chittor Dt. 28 P.Jaffar Valli han S/o. P.Lalkhan Telecom Mechanic O/o. SDOT.MDP Chittor Dt. 29 P.VISWANANDHAIAH S/O. P.VENKATRAMAIAH Telecom Mechanic O/o. SDE (G) Tirupathi Chittor Dt. 30 C.Venkataramana S/o. O. Guntanna Telecom Mechanic O/o. SDE (G) VALMIKIPURAM Chittor Dt. 31 M.Ramaswamy S/o. M.Venkatappa Telecom Mechanic O/o. SDE (G) VALMIKIPURAM Chittor Dt. 32 V.Ramachandra Reddy S/o. V.Sidda Reddy Telecom Mechanic O/o. SDOP , MDP Chittor Dt. 33 J.GEORGE S/O. J.RAMAIAH Telecom Mechanic O/O. Telephone Exchange Korlagunta Chittor Dt. 34 D.Umamaheswara Rao S/o. D.Nagulu Telecom Mechanic O/o. SDE Central Tirupati Chittor Dt. 35 B.Sunkulaiah S/o. Ramaiah Telecom Mechanic O/o. Telephone Exchange Rompicherla Chittor Dt. 36 S.Chandra Sekhara Raju S/o. Raghava Raju Telecom Mechanic O/o. SE (G) SATYAVEDU Chittor Dt. 37 O.Venkatesu S/o. Anjeraiah Telecom Mechanic O/o. SDE OBC Tirupati Chittor Dt. 38 S.Poornachandran S/o. S.Ranganatha Rao Telecom Mechanic O/o. Telephone Exchange Tirupati under SDE (P) Chittor Dt. 39 V.ANANDAIAH S/O. V.Ramaiah Telecom Mechanic O/o. SDE (Gr) Pakala Chittor Dt. 40 P.Pullaiah S/o. P.C.Ramaiah Telecom Mechanic O/o. MDF TELEPHONE EXCHANGE Tirupati Chittor Dt. 41 C. Subramanyam, S/o. C. Munaswamy, Telecom Mechanic O/o. TUDA TELEPHONE EXCHANGE Under SDE Extnl. II, Tirupathi, 42 P. Chengiah, S/o. P. Gangaiah, Telecom Mechanic O/o. TELEPHONE EXCHANGE Tirumala Under SDE (Gr), Tirupathi. 43 M. Kothanda Ramaiah, S/o. M. Krishna Swamy, Telecom Mechanic O/o. TELEPHONE EXCHANGE Vadamalapeta Under SDE(gr), Putturu. 44 P. Adaiah, S/o. P. Gangaiah, Telecom Mechanic O/o. Telephone Exchange, Tirumala. (All Are Working under th control of General Manager, Telecom, Tirupathi) ..... PETITIONERS AND 1 The General Manager, Telecom District, Tirupathi, Chittoor District. 2 The Chief General Manager, Telecom A.P. Circle, Hyderabad. 3 The Director General, Telecom, New Delhi. 4 The Chairman & Managing Director, BSNL, Telecom, New Delhi. .....RESPONDENTS Petition under Article 226 of the constitution of India praying that in the circumstances stated in the Affidavit filed herein the High Court will be pleased to issue a writ order or direction more in the nature of Mandamus declaring that the petitioners are entitled for placement in the scale of Rs.4000-100-6000 in the cadre of Telecom Mechanics on completion of 16 years of Service from the date of their appointment as Regular Mazdoor/Group -D/Telegraphman as the case may be in terms of Judgment of Central Administrative Tribunal, Hyderabad in O.A.No.1966/99 dt.9-8-2000 as confirmed by this Hon'ble Court in W.P. No. 14744/2001 dt.16-10- 2003 and also in terms of Lr.No.1-38/MPP-98 dt.20-4-1999 and letter of even No. 1- 38/98-MPP dt.20-9-1999 which removed the condition of minimum of 4 years of service in the restructured cadre with all consequential benefits including the benefit of I.D.A. Scales. Counsel for the Petitioners: MR.K.VENKATESWARA RAO Counsel for the Respondents: MR. A.SURYA CHANDRA RAO The Court at the stage of admission made the following: ORDER: This writ petition is filed by the petitioners praying to issue a writ of Mandamus declaring that the petitioners are entitled for placement in the scale of Rs.4000-100-6000 in the cadre of Telecom Mechanics on completion of 16 years of Service from the date of their appointment as Regular Mazdoor/Group -D/Telegraphman. 2. According to the petitioners almost identical issue was considered by the Central Administrative Tribunal in O.A.No.1966 of 1999 dated 09-08-2000 which was allowed and the same was confirmed by this Court in W.P.No.14744 of 2001 dated 16-10-2003. Therefore, the learned counsel for the petitioners sought for similar direction for extension of the scale which Group-‘C’ cadre are entitled. 3. The learned Standing Counsel appearing for the respondents has fairly conceded that the issue is covered by the judgment of the Division Bench of this Court referred to earlier. At the time of hearing, the learned counsel also conceded that the Division Bench judgment of this Court was assailed by filing SLP before the Apex Court and the SLP was also dismissed. 4. Under the above circumstances, the writ petition is allowed directing the respondents to extend the benefit of pay scale of Group-‘C’ cadre employees to the petitioners, which was extended to the petitioners in O.A.No.1966 of 1999. 5. Accordingly, the writ petition is allowed. No order as to costs. __________________ S.ANANDA REDDY, J 10th June, 2005 NOTE: Furnish C.C. within one week. B/o. SKM To 1 The General Manager, Telecom District, Tirupathi, Chittoor District. 2 The Chief General Manager, Telecom A.P. Circle, Hyderabad. 3 The Director General, Telecom, New Delhi. 4 The Chairman & Managing Director, BSNL, Telecom, New Delhi. 5 Two CD copies Form-NIC-OGS/WP{PSR}