HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE GHULAM MOHAMMED AND HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE NOOTY RAMAMOHANA RAO WRIT APPEAL NO. 481 OF 2011 Between: Afzal Begum D/o Abdul Ghani and one another ………….Appellants AND The Joint Collector /Chairperson District Level Selection Committee, Mahabubnagar District and five others ………….Respondents JUDGMENT: (Per Hon'ble Sri Justice Ghulam Mohammed) This Writ Appeal is directed against the judgment rendered by the learned Single Judge dismissing the writ petition instituted by the appellants herein. The case of the appellants is that they were appointed as Guest Teachers in Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalaya, which was established and run by Rajiv Vidya Mission Society. Their contract of appointment has been renewed based upon the assessment of their performance. However, on 11.8.2010 notiﬁcation was issued calling for applications from eligible candidates for selection of 213 Contract Resource Teachers(CRT). The learned Single Judge held that so long as the appellants have not been selected by a properly constituted Selection Committee, they cannot seek to continue for ever and if they satisfy the criteria for recruitment they can as well respond to the notiﬁcation and appear for the selections. Therefore, he has dismissed the Writ Petition. The learned Single Judge has also held that after the expiry of the period of contract, the CRT cannot be continued. Heard the learned counsel for the appellants as well as the learned counsel for the respondents. Except asserting that the services of the appellants have been assessed periodically and found to be satisfactory, no material is placed before us that they have been selected by a properly constituted Selection Committee prior to recruitment as CRT. In the absence of any such selection procedure, the appointment made in favour of the petitioners/appellants is only purely contractual in nature and they are for a ﬁxed tenure. As the selections could not be ﬁnalised, the respondents may have extended the tenure of the contract based upon the assessment of the performance of work by the appellants. That does not give them any right to continue as CRT’s for indeﬁnite period. Like all other eligible candidates, they will have to compete for selection and only after they get selected, they can stake a claim for regular recruitment but not otherwise. We do not find any irregularity in exercising the discretion by the learned Single Judge warranting our interference. Hence, the Writ Appeal is dismissed. There shall be no order as to costs. ________________________ GHULAM MOHAMMED, J ________________________________ NOOTY RAMAMOHANA RAO, J DATE: 23.11.2011 KA ... REGISTRAR // TRUE COPY // SECTION OFFICER To 1. 2 CD copies.