IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM PRESENT : THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE V.GIRI MONDAY, THE 12TH OCTOBER 2009 / 20TH ASWINA 1931 WP(C).No. 28228 of 2009(W) -------------------------- PETITIONER(S): --------------- ASHA SANKAR.C, AGED 40 YEARS, POOZHIKKATTU HOUSE, ERICKAVU MURI, KUMARAPURAM VILLAGE, KARTHIKAPPALLY, ALAPPUZHA DISTRICT, (WORKING AS AGRICULTURAL OFFICER, KRISHI BHAVAN, MUTHUKULAM, HARIPAD). BY ADV. SRI.S.SHANAVAS KHAN RESPONDENT(S): --------------- 1. THE DIRECTOR OF AGRICULTURE, DIRECTORATE OF AGRICULTURE, THIRUVANANTHAPURAM. 2. THE PRINCIPAL, AGRICULTURE OFFICER, ALAPPUZHA. 3. THE ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF AGRICULTURE, CHEPPAD, HARIPAD, ALAPPUZHA. SR GP ANU SIVARAMAN THIS WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) HAVING COME UP FOR ADMISSION ON 12/10/2009, THE COURT ON THE SAME DAY DELIVERED THE FOLLOWING: V.GIRI, J ------------------- W.P.(C).28228/2009 -------------------- Dated this the 12th day of October, 2009 JUDGMENT Petitioner is working as Agricultural Officer, pursuant to an advice by the PSC. Her appointment as an Agricultural Officer has been regularized and probation was declared with effect from 6.10.1999. She applied for ten years Time Bound Higher Grade, by requesting that earlier Aided school service that she has rendered from 29.10.1992 to 5.10.1997, for a period of four years and nine months should also be reckoned in calculating ten years of qualifying service for the First Time Bound Higher Grade. Her proposal, Ext.P2, was rejected as per Ext.P3. Hence the writ petition. 2. Prior Aided School service cannot be taken into account for the purpose of calculating number of years of service required in Government service, for Time Bound Higher Grade or for the purpose of increments. This position is settled by a judgment of this Court in Stanley v. State of Kerala (2002 (2) KLT 431). W.P.(C).28228/09 2 In the result, I find no merit in the writ petition. Accordingly, the same is dismissed. V.GIRI, Judge mrcs