IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD HON’BLE Mr. JUSTICE R. SUBHASH REDDY Writ Petition No.25345 of 2006 Dated: March 30, 2007 Between: Subrahmanyam, S/o. Kotesu, aged 18 years, Unemployed, Pulivendula, Kadapa District. … Petitioner And The Manager, State Bank of Hyderabad, Main Branch, Kadapa, Kadapa District. … Respondent Order: This Writ Petition has been filed seeking Mandamus to declare the action of the respondent in confining the selection of Sweeper- cum-Lunch Room Attendant, only to the candidates sponsored by the District Employment Exchange, without inviting applications from qualified candidates, as arbitrary and illegal and a consequential direction to the respondent to consider his case along with all other qualified candidates. 2. The State Bank of India, Kadapa Branch, has notified the aforesaid vacancy and to fill up the same, it has requisitioned names from the local Employment Exchange. It is stated that though the petitioner had also registered his name with the Employment Exchange, his name was not sponsored and when he approached the respondent directly and made an application, the same was rejected. The case of the petitioner is that requisition of names from the employment exchange is only one of the known methods and there is no bar for not considering the candidates who apply directly. In support of his contention, he relied on a decision of the Apex Court in the case of The Central Superintendent, Malkapatnam Vs. K.B.N. Visweshwara Rao[1] 3. This court, while admitting the Writ Petition, by order dated 06-12-2006, passed in WPMP No.32472 of 2006, directed the respondent to consider the case of the petitioner also to the aforesaid post along with other candidates, subject to condition that the petitioner possesses the requisite qualifications and fulfills the conditions notified. 4. As much as in the judgment of the Apex Court referred above it was held that the department concerned should call for the names by publication in the newspapers having wider circulation and also display on the office notice boards in addition to requisition from the employment exchange and then consider the cases of all the candidates who have applied, I dispose of the Writ Petition directing the respondent to consider the case of the petitioner along with the candidates sponsored by the employment exchange, and if he comes out successfully in the process of selection to the post of Sweeper- cum- Lunch Room Attendant, he shall be appointed as such, if he is otherwise eligible. No costs. __________________________ JUSTICE R. SUBHASH REDDY. March 30, 2007 MRR [1] 1996 (6) SCALE 676