IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) TUESDAY, THE TWENTY EIGHTH DAY OF JUNE TWO THOUSAND AND FIVE PRESENT THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE S.ANANDA REDDY WRIT PETITION NO : 7753 of 2005 Between: G.Narsimha Ramulu, S/o. Late Narasaiah, R/o. Warangal, Warangal District. ..... PETITIONER AND 1 The Chairman & Managing Director, A.P.Transco, Vidhyut Soudha, Hyderabad. 2 The Superintendent Engineer, TL & SS Circle, AP Transco, Warangal. .....RESPONDENTS Petition under Article 226 of the constitution of India praying that in the circumstances stated in the Affidavit filed herein the High Court will be pleased to issue an appropriate writ, order or direction more particularly, one in the nature of writ of Mandamus declaring the action of the respondents in not awarding the time scale of pay 142-8-150-10-250-10-280 on par with the pay scale attached to the post of Sub-Over-Seer with retrospective effect from 26-07-1969 as highly illegal arbitrary and violative of Article 14 and 21 of Constitution of India and consequentially direct the respondents to award the time scale of pay of 142-8-150-10-250-10-280 on par with the post of sub over seer with all consequential monitory benefits since 26-07- 1969 to the petitioner and to pass such other order or orders. Counsel for the Petitioner: MR.K.V.RAJENDRA PRASAD Counsel for the Respondent Nos.1 and 2: MR.KISHORE SAMINENI (SC FOR AP TRANSCO) The Court at the stage of admission made the following ORDER: This writ petition is filed by the petitioner seeking Writ of Mandamus declaring the action of the respondents in not awarding the time scale of pay of 142-8-150-10-250- 10-280 on par with the pay scale attached to the post of the Sub-Over-Seer with retrospective effect from 26.07.1969 as illegal, arbitrary and violative of Articles 14 and 21 of Constitution of India and consequently to direct the respondents to award the time scale of pay. 2. It is stated that the petitioner was initially appointed as Sub-Over-Seer in the month of October, 1968 and posted at Operations Section, Bellampally, Adilabad District vide proceedings dated 28.10.1968. Subsequently, the Andhra Pradesh State Electricity Board was bifurcated into A.P. Transco and A.P. Zenco and the petitioner is presently working under A.P. Transco. It is further stated that the petitioner was given pay scale of 65-3-80. Later, the petitioner was selected and promoted as Load-Surveyor from among the Sub-Over-Seer O&M Lineman in the higher scale of pay i.e., 105-3-135. He again promoted as Assistant Supervisor. 3. The grievance of the petitioner is that other similarly placed persons were given higher scale of pay, but the same was not extended to him. Therefore, he made representations on various dates from the year 1982 onwards seeking fixation of his pay in the scale of 142-8-150-10-250-10-280 on par with other Sub-Over-Seers appointed along with him. As no orders have been passed, the petitioner has come up with the present writ petition seeking appropriate orders. 4. At the time of hearing, it is represented by the learned counsel for the petitioner that the petitioner finally made a representation on 24.06.2004, which was received by the Department, and it was put up before the Superintendent Engineer for necessary action. In spite of the same, no orders are passed. Therefore, he sought for a direction to dispose of the writ petition. 5. Heard the learned counsel for the petitioner and the learned standing counsel for the respondents. 6. As the petitioner was not granted the time scale of pay on par with the other similarly placed persons, he made representation for granting the time scale of pay on par with the others and the said representation was not disposed of. Therefore, the respondents are directed to dispose of the representation of the petitioner dated 24.06.2004 by passing appropriate orders expeditiously. 7. The writ petition is accordingly disposed of at the stage of admission. _______________ S.Ananda Reddy, J Date: 28.06.2005 va To 1 The Chairman & Managing Director, A.P.Transco, Vidhyut Soudha, Hyderabad. 2 The Superintendent Engineer, TL & SS Circle, AP Transco, Warangal. 3 2 CD copies