HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR WRIT PETITION No.17526 of 2001 Date: November 26, 2010 Between: K. Narasaiah. … Petitioner And 1. The Government of Andhra Pradesh, rep. by its Secretary, Education Department, Hyderabad & 3 others. … Respondents * * * HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR WRIT PETITION No.17526 of 2001 ORDER: The petitioner, a Physical Education Teacher appointed in a leave vacancy in the Vidya Parishad High School, Edupulapadu, Inkollu Mandal, Prakasam District, the 4th respondent, filed the present writ petition challenging the proceedings dated 26.4.2001 issued by the District Education Officer, Ongole, Prakasam District, rejecting the request of the 4th respondent school to shift him from the leave vacancy to any other vacant post. 2. Admittedly, the petitioner was appointed as a Physical Education Teacher in the leave vacancy which resulted from the one-year leave availed by one T.L. Subba Rao, the regularly appointed Physical Education Teacher in the 4th respondent school. The said appointment was initially for a period of one year and was extended thereafter by a further period of one year owing to the extension of leave granted to T.L. Subba Rao. However, upon T.L. Subba Rao joining in service on 24.3.2000, the petitioner lost his employment. As the 4th respondent school was sympathetic to his cause, it addressed letter dated 24.3.2001 to the District Education Officer, Ongole, Prakasam District, to consider shifting the petitioner to any vacant post. The said request was however rejected by the District Education Officer, Prakasam District, under the impugned proceedings dated 26.4.2001. The reason for the rejection as stated by the authority was that there was no provision as per rules for taking such a step. 3. Learned counsel appearing for the petitioner fairly conceded that there is no provision, as pointed out by the District Education Officer, Prakasam District, which permitted the petitioner, who was appointed in a leave vacancy, to be accommodated in a regular vacant post. The petitioner can therefore have no legally redressible grievance in so far as the rejection embodied in the impugned proceeding dated 26.4.2001 is concerned. 4. The writ petition is devoid of merit and is accordingly dismissed. No costs. ____________________ SANJAY KUMAR, J Date: November 26, 2010. BSB