HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE K.G. SHANKAR W.P.No.7713 of 2006 Date: 31.07.2013 Between: Ch. Satyanarayna, and 4 others … Petitioners AND State of Andhra Pradesh, rep.by its Principal Secretary, Education Department (Higher Education), Secretariat, Saifabad, Hyderabad. and 3 others. … Respondents HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE K.G. SHANKAR Writ Petition No.7713 of 2006 ORDER: The petitioners have been working as Junior Lecturers in the fourth respondent-College. They seek for a Writ of Mandamus to declare the action of the respondents in not absorbing the services of the petitioners in aided posts of Junior Lecturers in the fourth respondent-College as arbitrary and to direct the respondents to absorb the services of the petitioners against aided vacancies in the fourth respondent- College. 2. The petitioners are Junior Lecturers in Botany, History, Physics, Chemistry and Zoology respectively. They have been working with the fourth respondent-College since 1992. The Junior Lecturers holding aided posts retired from the fourth respondent- College. Consequently, the petitioners were appointed to discharge the duties of the Junior Lecturers. It is the case of the petitioners that since 1992 the petitioners 2 to 5 have been discharging the duties of the aided lecturers and seek that they be absorbed in the aided vacancies. 3. Admittedly, the petitioners have not been selected through the selection process contemplated by G.O.Ms.No.12, Education Department, dated 10.01.1992 or the Rules preceding the same. At the same time, the learned counsel for the petitioners submitted that the Government has been absorbing various lecturers working in unaided posts as lecturers in aided vacancies. 4. The learned counsel for the petitioners drew my attention to G.O.Rt.No.83, Higher Education (CE- II.1) Department, dated 08.02.2002 in which a lecturer in history was absorbed to grant-in-aid vacancy. Series of such Government Orders have been produced by the learned counsel for the petitioners for my perusal. In all the cases, Government considered it appropriate to absorb the individual into grant-in-aid whether such an individual was selected through due process of selection or otherwise. I, therefore, consider that the petitioners also deserve to be considered by the competent authority for being absorbed as Junior Lecturers into the grant-in-aid posts. 5. The petitioners, however, cannot seek for a direction to the respondents to absorb the services of the petitioners against the grant-in-aid vacancies. The petitioners may seek for consideration of their case by the concerned authorities. The first petitioner has already withdrawn himself from the writ petition. The writ petition is liable to be dismissed as against the first petitioner and is accordingly dismissed as against the first petitioner. 6. The writ petition is disposed of, so far as the petitioners 2 to 5 are concerned, directing the respondents to consider the case of the petitioners 2 to 5 for absorption into grant-in-aid vacancies. No costs. ________________ K.G. SHANKAR, J Date: 31.07.2013 Isn