IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE RAMESH RANGANATHAN Writ Petition No.5053 of 1997 DATED 29-1-2007 BETWEEN K.Venkata Subba Reddy and 25 others. .. Petitioner And The Government of A.P. represented by its Secretary, Education Department, Secretariat, Hyderabad and 3 others. .. Respondents THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE RAMESH RANGANATHAN WRIT PETITION NO.5053 OF 1997 ORDER: The action of the respondents in not granting the petitioners equal pay scales as that of Physical Directors working Government Colleges, is questioned in this writ petition. The petitioners, who were working as Physical Directors in aided junior colleges, seek a direction to the respondents to give them equal pay scales on par with Physical Directors working in Government Colleges from 1.9.1989. Both Sri S.Lakshma Reddy, learned counsel for the petitioners and the learned Government Pleader for Higher Education would agree that inasmuch as the Government had issued G.O.(P) No.266, Finance and Planning Department dated 31.12.1997 whereby Physical Directors in private and aided junior colleges were given revised pay scales of Rs.3110-6380 subject to their possessing the qualiﬁcations laid down in G.O.Ms.No.159 dated 22.1.1991, the cause in this writ petition does not survive requiring adjudication. The writ petition is accordingly dismissed. No costs. RAMESH RANGANATHAN,J Dt: 29.1.2007 msv.