THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE S. ANANDA REDDY WRIT PETITION NO: 15111 OF 2005 DATED:09.08.2005 Between: K.Venkata Narasappa, S/o.K.U.Pathanamappa, Aged about 59 years, Occ: Retd. Principal of Sri T.N. Venkata Subba Reddy Memorial I.T.I. Thamballapally, Chittoor District. and nine others. ……PETITIONERS AND The Government of Andhra Pradesh, Rep. by the Principal Secretary, Dept. of Employment & Training Tech. Education, Secretariat, Hyderabad. And another. ……RESPONDENTS THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE S. ANANDA REDDY WRIT PETITION NO:15111 of 2005 ORDER The claim of the petitioners is that they were originally the employees of a private institution called T.N.Venkata Subba Reddy Memorial I.T.I., Thamballapally, Chittoor District and the said institution was taken over by the Government, but after taken over, the scales of pay of the petitioners were not fixed. Therefore, they filed this Writ Petition seeking appropriate direction to the respondent authorities i.e. the Principal Secretary of Andhra Pradesh, Department of Employment & Training Technical Education as well as the Commissioner of Employment & Training, A.P., Hyderabad. When the matter came up for admission, the respondents took an objection that after the institution was taken over by the Government, the petitioners have become the employees of the Government and therefore, the petitioners cannot maintain the present Writ Petition and they have to approach the A.P. Administrative Tribunal only seeking any relief relating to their service conditions. Under the above circumstances, the Writ Petition is not maintainable before this Court and the petitioners have to approach the Administrative Tribunal only at the first instance for any relief relating to their service conditions. The Writ Petition is accordingly disposed of directing the petitioners to approach the Administrative Tribunal. No costs. _______________ S. ANANDA REDDY,J 09TH AUGUST 2005 Tsr