IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM PRESENT : THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE P.N.RAVINDRAN WEDNESDAY, THE 17TH DECEMBER 2008 / 26TH AGRAHAYANA 1930 WP(C).No. 36526 of 2008(W) -------------------------- PETITIONER: --------------- RAJEEVAN EDALAVATH, S/O.UNNI R/AT.CHEMANCHERRY, KOYILANDY, KOZHIKODE. BY ADV. SRI.T.G.RAJENDRAN RESPONDENTS: --------------- 1. STATE OF KERALA, REP. BY THE CHIEF SECRETARY, SECRETARIAT, THIRUVANANTHAPURAM. 2. DISTRICT EMPLOYMENT OFFICER, KOZHIKODE. 3. EMPLOYMENT OFFICER, TOWN EMPLOYMENT EXCHANGE, KOYILANDY, KOZHIKODE. 4. KERALA WATER AUTHORITY REP. BY THE MANAGING DIRECTOR, THIRUVANANTHAPURAM. 5. CHIEF ENGINEER, KERALA WATER AUTHORITY KOZHIKODE. 6. EXECUTIVE ENGINEER, KERALA WATER AUTHORITY, KOZHIKODE. BY GOVERNMENT PLEADER ANU SIVARAMAN STANDING COUNSEL FOR KERALA WATER AUTHORITY J KRISHNA KUMAR THIS WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) HAVING COME UP FOR ADMISSION ON 17/12/2008, THE COURT ON THE SAME DAY DELIVERED THE FOLLOWING: P.N.RAVINDRAN, J ----------------------------- W.P.(C) NO:36526 of 2008 ----------------------------- Dated this 17th day of December, 2008 JUDGMENT Sri.T.G.Rajendran, the learned counsel appearing for the petitioner and Sri.C.Unnikrishnan, the learned standing counsel appearing for the Kerala Water Authority. 2. The petitioner had worked for various spells as Plumber in the Kerala Water Authority during the period from October 1986 to October 1987. He belongs to Mannan community which is a scheduled caste in the State of Kerala. Claiming regularisation in service he moved the State Government in Ext.P12 representation. On receipt of the said representation, the Government sought views of the Kerala Water Authority. The Managing Director there upon sent Ext.P13 letter to the Executive Engineer PH Division, Kerala Water Authority, Kozhikode directing him to conduct an enquiry and to forward a detailed report. The grievance voiced by the petitioner is that though more than three months have passed, thereafter, the Executive Engineer who is the sixth respondent in this writ petition has not yet forward the report called for in Ext.P13. In this writ petition, the petitioner inter alia prays for a direction to the sixth respondent to forward report to the Managing Director of the Kerala Water Authority, as sought in Ext.P13. 3. When the writ petition came up for hearing today, the learned counsel appearing for the petitioner submitted that the writ petition may be disposed of with a direction to the sixth respondent to forward the report called for wpc:36526 of 2008 2 in Ext.P13 within a time limit to be fixed by this Court and further directing the Managing Director of the Kerala Water Authority to forward his remarks to State Government so as to enable the State Government to take a decision on Ext.P12. 4. The pleadings and materials on record disclose that the request made by the petitioner for absorption in the Kerala Water Authority is pending consideration and that final orders have not been passed for the reason that the Government have not yet obtained the views of the Kerala Water Authority. Ext.P13 discloses that the Managing Director of the Kerala Wather Authority has called for a report from the sixth respondent and that more than three months have passed thereafter. In these circumstances, without expressing any opinion on the merits of the petitioner's contentions, I dispose of the writ petition with the following directions: i) The sixth respondent shall within two months from the date of receipt of a copy of this judgment conduct an enquiry and submit a report to the Managing Director of the Kerala Water Authority. ii) The Managing Director of Kerala Water Authority shall within two months thereafter submit his report to the State Government. iii)The State Government shall within a period of two months from the date of receipt of the said report take a final decision on the request made by the petitioner in Ext.P12. P.N.RAVINDRAN, JUDGE bps