THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR WRIT PETITION NOS.17196 AND 18261 OF 2008 DATED 15TH DECEMBER, 2010 BETWEEN: Bonthapudi Kshiti Mohan Raj and Others. … Petitioners And The District Educational Officer, Sri Potti Sriramulu Nellore District. Nellore and Others. … Respondents THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR WRIT PETITION NOS.17196 AND 18261 OF 2008 COMMON ORDER The petitioners, Teachers in various Aided Schools in Nellore District, participated in Literacy Programmes during the summer vacation under the aegis of the Mandal Parishad Development Officer. G.O.Ms.No.35, Education (H) Department, dated 16.01.1981 provides that they are entitled to proportionate earned leave for having been prevented from utilizing their vacation. Aggrieved by the action of the respondents in not allowing them encashment of earned leave for such period, the petitioners are before this Court. The material placed on record indicates that the petitioners participated in the Literacy Programmes held by the authorities during the summer vacation period. In so far as their eligibility to claim earned leave for such service is concerned, the issue has already been considered by a Division Bench of this Court in the context of Government Teachers in V.SUBBA RAO AND OTHERS V/s. THE MANDAL EDUCATIONAL OFFICER AND OTHERS[1]. A copy of the said order is placed on record and demonstrates that the Division Bench, taking note of the fact that the authorities had extracted work from the Teachers during the summer vacation on the assurance that they would be credited with 25 days earned leave, held that the same could not be denied by the State in the role of a benevolent and model employer. Similar considerations would apply to the petitioners, being grant-in-aid Teachers, who have also participated in Literacy Programmes during the summer vacation period. There shall accordingly be a direction to the respondents to credit 25 days of earned leave to the account of each of the petitioners, if not already credited, for their participation in the summer vacation Literacy Programmes and permit encashment thereof within a period of two (2) months from the date of receipt of a copy of this order. The Writ Petitions are disposed of with the above directions. No order as to costs. -------------------------- SANJAY KUMAR,J 15TH DECEMBER, 2010 Note: Issue CC by Monday. B/O PGS/VGSR [1] W.P.No.16148 of 2099 dated 07.08.2009