IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) MONDAY, THE FIFTEENTH DAY OF DECEMBER TWO THOUSAND AND EIGHT PRESENT THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY WRIT PETITION NO:19769 of 1999 Between: Osmania University Daily Wage Employees Welfare Association rep.by its secretary H Chandramohan. Redg No.17/95, 112/3RT Vijayanagar Colony, Hyderabad. ..... PETITIONER AND 1 Osmania University, rep.by it's Registrar, Hyderabad-500 007. 2 The Govt. of A.P. rep.by it's Secretary, Higher education Department, Secretariat Building, Hyderabad. 3 The Govt. of A.P. rep.by it's Secretary, Labour & Employment Dept., Secretariat Building , Hyderabad. .....RESPONDENTS Counsel for the Petitioner:MR.G.VIDYASAGAR Counsel for Respondent No.1:MR.DEEPAK BHATTACHARJEE Counsel for Respondent No.2:AGP FOR HIGHER EDUCATION The Court made the following : ORDER: This writ petition is filed for a writ of mandamus to declare the inaction of respondent No.1 university in extending minimum of timescale of pay to the members of the petitioner association, who are employed on daily wage basis, as illegal and arbitrary. At the hearing, Sri Deepak Bhattacharjee, learned counsel for respondent No.1 submitted that the University has sanctioned minimum of time scale of pay to all those daily wage employees, who have been working prior to 1991 and continuing, prospectively and that this decision was taken recently in 2008. Sri G.Vidyasagar, learned counsel for the petitioner association submitted that since substantial part of the grievance of the petitioner association is redressed, the writ petition may be closed as infructuous. The writ petition is accordingly, disposed of as infructuous. As a sequel to disposal of main petition as infructuous, WPMP.No.24790 of 1999 is disposed of as infructuous. C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY, J 15th DECEMBER, 2008. kvni