THE HON’BLE MR JUSTICE L. NARASIMHA REDDY Writ Petition Nos.26004 of 1999 and 26445 of 2000 COMMON ORDER: The issue involved in both the Writ Petitions is one and the same. Hence, they are being disposed of by this common order. The petitioners were employed in the A.P. Meat and Poultry Development Corporation Limited, the 1st respondent. A scheme of Voluntary Retirement was introduced by the 1st respondent with cut-off date of, 15.07.1999. The petitioners and certain others felt that the 1st respondent was facing liquidation or winding up, and in such an event, they were entitled to be absorbed in the Animal Husbandry Department of State of Andhra Pradesh. To pursue that object, they filed batch of writ petitions. The same came to be dismissed on 22.11.1999. By that time, the duration to avail the benefit under V.R.S. scheme lapsed. On a request made by the petitioners, the Division Bench of this Court directed the 1st respondent to extend the duration of the scheme of V.R.S. It was in this context, that the 1st respondent extended the duration of the scheme till 13.12.1999. However, the cut- off date for calculation of the benefits, as stipulated earlier, viz., 15.07.1999, was retained. The grievance of the petitioners is that the same cut off date ought not to have been applied to them and a corresponding date ought to have been adopted. Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and learned counsel for the respondents. The cut-off date assumes significance, from the point of view of enabling the employees to have three months notice or three months salary, in lieu of notice. The scheme was originally launched on 15.07.1999 and that was identified as cutoff date. Had the scheme been extended by the 1st respondent on its own accord, the extended date would certainly have been the fresh cut off date. The necessity for the 1st respondent to extend the scheme and its duration arose on account of the pendency of the writ petitions filed by the petitioners herein. But, for the extended date of the scheme, the petitioners would not have got the benefit under the scheme, at all. Having become responsible for the non-implementation of the scheme for quite sometime, the petitioners cannot take advantage of their own acts and omissions. Further, the object of the cut-off date is only to put the concerned employee on notice. With the launching of the scheme, the petitioners were very much put on notice. For the period they have worked between 15.07.1999 and 13.12.1999, they have been paid salary also. Hence, there are no merits in the plea of the petitioners. The Writ Petitions are accordingly dismissed. There shall be no order as costs. _____________________ L. NARASIMHA REDDY, J. Dt.01.07.2010. GJ