THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE L.NARASIMHA REDDY W.P.No.22008 of 2005 Date:25.10.2005 Ch.Suresh Kumar. --------PETITIONER The District Collector/Chairman and another. ---------RESPONDENTS ORDER: The petitioner was engaged as NMR Technical Work Inspector by the Krishna District Scheduled Caste Service Cooperative Society Limited, 1st respondent herein, in the year 1990. Through order, dated 07.02.1999, the 1st respondent directed that the petitioner shall function as Work Supervisor at Movva Section, on a consolidated pay of Rs.3,500/- per month. Ever since then, the petitioner has been continuing in that assignment. An order was passed on 09.07.2005, directing that the petitioner be reverted as NMR Technical Work Inspector. The petitioner challenges the same. It is urged that the petitioner was discriminated in the matter of reversion and that several juniors to him are being continued as Work Supervisors. In the counter affidavit filed on behalf of the respondents, it is stated that the petitioner was not promoted or appointed on regular basis as Work Supervisor and that the entrustment of the duties was made only on temporary basis. It is contended that no seniority list of NMRs is maintained and that no exception can be taken to the impugned order. Sri Ch.Satish Kumar, the learned counsel for the petitioner submits that though as many as five NMRs working in the same section were promoted and posted as Work Supervisors in the year 1999, the petitioner alone was singled out and that the action of the respondents cannot be sustained in law. Sri M.S.Mohan Rao, the learned Standing Counsel for the respondents, on the other hand, submits that there is no work load at present to continue the petitioner as Work Supervisor. He contends that there is any amount of doubt as to the genuinity of the claim of the petitioner about his qualifications. It is not in dispute that the petitioner was engaged as NMR Technical Work Inspector in the year 1990. It is also a matter of record that on 07.02.1999, the petitioner was posted as Work Supervisor along with four others in the same section. It is always open to the respondents to organize their unit by posting the employees at appropriate places and positions. However, whenever a person is assigned a particular duty, be it, on regular or temporary basis, is reverted or required to work in a lower post, the principle of ‘last come first go’ has to be scrupulously followed. Indiscriminate posting of persons in such matters would amount to arbitrariness and discrimination. Though the petitioner asserts that several persons, who are juniors to him, are being retained as Work Supervisors, this Court is not inclined to record any finding on the same. However, as long as any junior to the petitioner is being continued as Work Supervisor, the petitioner cannot be reverted or posted as Technical Work Inspector. Hence, the writ petition is disposed of, directing that the respondents shall maintain the principle of ‘last come first go’ in the matter of reverting the existing Work Supervisors as Technical Work Inspectors or in the matter of retrenchment of the said employees from the respective posts. There shall be no order as to costs. _________ 25.10.2005 Note: Issue C.C. in three days. (B/o) Jsu