IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM PRESENT : THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE S.SIRI JAGAN THURSDAY, THE 27TH JANUARY 2011 / 7TH MAGHA 1932 WP(C).No. 2708 of 2011(K) --------------------------------- PETITIONERS: --------------- 1. G.S.SURESHKUMAR,SURESH BHAVAN,KRA 136, TC.30/41,ANAYARA PO,TRIVANDRUM-695029. 2. A.SALIM, MULLAVANAM, THOLICODE, THOLICAIDE PO,NEDUMANGAD, TRIVANDRUM. 3. V.P.ANILKUMAR, PADMACOTTAGE,BURMA ROAD, KUMARAPURAM, MEDICAL COLLEGE PO,TRIVANDRUM. 4. S.S.SUNILKUMAR,SAROJA BHAVAN, PAYATTUVILA PO,BALARAMAPURAM(VIA)TRIVANDRUM. BY ADV. SRI.THOMAS ABRAHAM SRI.DIPU.R SMT.MERCIAMMA MATHEW SRI.K.S.HARIDAS SRI.V.RENJITH KUMAR RESPONDENTS: --------------- 1. STATE OF KERALA REPRESENTED BY THE COMMISSIONER, SECRETARY TO GOVERNMENT, INDUSTRIES DEPARTMENT, GOVERNMENT SECRETARIAT, TRIVANDRUM-695001. 2. THE MANAGING DIRECTOR, TRAVANCORE TITANIUM PRODUCTS LTD,KOCHUVELI,TRIVANDRUM 695002. ADV.MR. SANDESH RAJA – GOVT. PLEADER MR. B.S. KRISHNAN - SC THIS WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) HAVING COME UP FOR ADMISSION ON 27/01/2011, THE COURT ON THE SAME DAY DELIVERED THE FOLLOWING: S. SIRI JAGAN, J. ----------------------------------- W.P.(C) No.2708 OF 2011 --------------------------------------- Dated this the 27th day of January, 2011 JUDGMENT The petitioners are aspirants for employment as Work Assistant in the Travancore Titanium Products Ltd., the second respondent herein. They have undergone apprenticeship training for that post in the Travancore Titanium Products Ltd. itself, pursuant to which the Government of India has issued National Apprenticeship Certificates to the petitioners. According to them, therefore, they are entitled to be absorbed in the Company. Their grievance in this writ petition is that now the second respondent has issued Ext.P10 notification inviting applications for the said post, without considering the claim of the petitioners to be appointed to the post recognising the apprenticeship training undergone by them in the Company itself. 2. The learned Standing Counsel would point out that there is no rule which enables the petitioners to seek automatic absorption pursuant to the apprenticeship training and therefore, W.P.(C)No.2708/11 2 they have to undergo the selection process as per the Recruitment Rules applicable. The learned Standing Counsel has also got a contention that the petitioners are over-aged. According to the petitioners, in view of the Government direction in this regard, the petitioners are entitled to preference in such appointment. In the above circumstances, the petitioners have filed Ext.P11 representation before the first respondent. The petitioners seek a direction to the first respondent to consider and pass orders on Ext.P11 expeditiously. Having heard the learned Government Pleader and the learned Standing Counsel for the second respondent, I dispose of this writ petition with a direction to the first respondent to consider and pass orders on Ext.P11, after affording an opportunity of being heard to a representative of the petitioners and to a representative of the second respondent as expeditiously as possible, at any rate, within one month from the date of receipt of a copy of this judgment. S. SIRI JAGAN, JUDGE acd W.P.(C)No.2708/11 3 W.P.(C)No.2708/11 4