THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE NOOTY RAMAMOHANA RAO WRIT PETITION No. 33099 of 2010 O R D E R: This Writ Petition is directed against an order passed by the Project Director, District Water Management Agency, Nellore District transferring the writ petitioner, who was working as a Technical Assistant in Gudur Mandal, to Chillakur Mandal on administrative grounds. Learned counsel for the writ petitioner submits that the Project Director has no such power. It is only the District Collector who has got power to transfer a Technical Assistant from one mandal to the other. He further submits that the writ petitioner has been appointed as a Technical Assistant on a contract basis and the said order of appointment is obviously intended to retain him only in Gudur Mandal and he cannot be posted to any other mandal. The learned counsel, for the said purpose, preferred to rely upon the instructions formulated by the State Government through their G.O.Ms.No. 506, Panchayat Raj and Rural Development (RD.II) Department, dated 12.11.2007. Instruction IV dealt with the issue relating to placement. It sets out that the District Collectors shall prioritize the list of selected candidates considering candidates belonging to a mandal as a unit, thus prioritizing candidates at mandal level following marks secured by them. Whether this instruction is applicable only at the time of initial selection and placement of the selected candidates or it will hold good even for the subsequent period, is a matter which has been left to be inferred. I, therefore, consider it appropriate that the writ petitioner should submit a detailed representation to the 4th respondent District Collector-cum-Programme Coordinator, Nellore District against the impugned order of transfer passed by the Project Director. It is open to the District Collector to examine the same and dispose it of on merits, preferably within 30 days from the date of receipt of the said representation. With this, the Writ Petition stands disposed of. No costs. ---------------------------------- (NOOTY RAMAMOHANA RAO, J) 29th December 2010 ksld