HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE R. SUBHASH REDDY WRIT PETITION No.19232 of 2008 Date : 27.10.2011 Between : Bhanoth Ramesh. …..Petitioner And The Revenue Divisional Officer, Narasampet Division & another. …..Respondents HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE R. SUBHASH REDDY WRIT PETITION No.19232 of 2008 ORDER : In this writ petition, the petitioner has questioned the notification, dated 20th August 2008, issued by the 1st respondent- Revenue Divisional Officer, Narasampet, in Rc.No.B/1395/2007, inviting applications for filling up the vacancy of dealer to the newly created fair price shop under the provisions of the A.P. Public Distribution System (Control) Order, 2008. Earlier, there was only one fair price shop in Yellayagudem village of Chennaraopet Mandal in Warangal District, which is in Narasampet Division. The dealership of the said shop was held by a person belonging to BC category, and as per the impugned notification, the newly created shop is reserved for SC (General) category. In the writ petition, it is the case of the petitioner that as the petitioner is a Tribal and as much as there is more Tribal population in the village, the newly created fair price shop should have been reserved for ST category. When the matter is taken up, the statement showing the categorywise reservations in the entire Narasampet division, is placed before this Court in a tabular form. As per the said statement furnished by the petitioner, there are 205 fair price shops in the division. Though 15% reservation is provided for SC- category as per the guidelines issued, only 17 shops are allotted to the said community. It is also to be noticed that though only 13 shops are to be reserved for ST category, 23 shops are held by the persons belonging to ST category. In view of the information furnished before this Court and in view of the shortfall of shops for SC category people, respondents have rightly issued the impugned notification, reserving the newly created shop for SC (General) category. Though it is submitted by the learned counsel for petitioner that there is more Tribal population in the village, the same is no ground for reserving the newly created shop also to the ST category, as the entire Revenue Division has to be taken into consideration for the purpose of effecting reservations. For the aforesaid reasons, I do not find any merit in the writ petition and the same is accordingly dismissed. No order as to costs. ______________________ R. SUBHASH REDDY, J 27th October 2011 ajr