THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE L.NARASIMHA REDDY WRIT PETITION No.22780 of 2010 ORDER: The petitioner was engaged as a member of Watershed Development Teams (for short ‘WDT’) under the National Rural Employment Government Scheme. The agency concerned undertook appointment of Additional Assistant Programme Officers (for short ‘APOs’) for each Mandal in Prakasam District. On account of non- availability of candidates belonging to the roaster points concerned, appointments could not made in respect of 16 Mandals. Therefore, the authority issued orders, dated 02.11.2007 directing that suitable candidates from the category of Community Coordinators under the Indira Kranthi Pathakam and members of WDTs under the Scheme can be considered for making ad hoc arrangement. In that context, the petitioner came to be appointed on temporary basis as APO on a remuneration of Rs.9,000/- per month. The agency undertook appointment of candidates on regular basis for the left over posts, in which the petitioner was working on ad hoc basis. The selection was entrusted to Acharya Nagarjuna University, Guntur. The selected candidates were posted in the respective vacancies and the petitioner came to be displaced. Hence, this writ petition. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned Government Pleader for Panchayat Raj and Rural Development for the respondents. The appointment of the petitioner was as a member of WDTs. It was only on account of suitable candidates being not available for the post of APOs, that the petitioner came to be engaged on ad hoc basis. It may be true that such arrangement continued for the past three years. That, however, does not change the circumstances and take away the right of the agency to appoint candidates through the prescribed procedure. The petitioner does not derive any vested right on account of her being appointed on ad hoc basis. On selection and appointment of regular candidates, the petitioner would stand reverted to the post to which she was initially appointed. No exception can be taken to the impugned order. The writ petition is accordingly dismissed. There shall be no order as to costs. _____________________________ JUSTICE L.NARASIMHA REDDY 27th September 2010 dr