W.P.No.48755 of 2025 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT MADRAS DATED : 18.12.2025 CORAM THE HONOURABLE MR.JUSTICE M.DHANDAPANI W.P.No.48755 of 2025 1.Ilango Sivakumar 2.S.S.Jayaaruna 3.J.Mohamed Ashik Ali 4.S.Devi 5.B.Lakshmipathy 6.V.Sukumar 7.N.Muthukumaran 8.M.Thambidurai 9.M.Senthilkumar 10.R.Velapan 11.L.Arunkumar 12.V.Vembu 13.P.Rajasekhar 14.G.Kamanan 15.M.Appoothi Adigal 16.V.Chandrasekaran 17.B.Neelakandan 18.B.Asaithambi 19.V.Subravel 20.I.Ashok Kumar 21.E.Ilanaganar 22.A.Baskaran 23.R.Tamilselvan 24.S.Karthikeyan 25.P.S.Prakash 26.R.Sripriya _________ https://www.mhc.tn.gov.in/judis W.P.No.48755 of 2025 27.E.R.Biju 28.P.Balachandar 29.G.Saravanan 30.N.J.Vinoth Kumar 31.S.Seenivasan S 32.M.Kalpanadevi 33.M.Siva 34.R.Venkadesh 35.N.Jayakumar 36.K.Kavitha 37.V.Vasudevan 38.A.Ahamed Jeelani Basha 39.P.Venkatsubramanian 40.J.Radha 41.R.Ramachandran 42.P.Kalyana Sundaram 43.S.Ezhil 44.P.Vidhya 45.S.Vadivel 46.E.B.Elanchezhian 47.S.Durai 48.J.Rameshkumar 49.B.Thamaraichelvi 50.Ganesh Ram 51.Kanagasabai 52.S.Anbu 53.L.Thillai Rani 54.K.Muthukumar 55.Boo.Poonguzhali 56.R.Manikandan 57.J.Rangaraj 58.T.Shankar 59.A.Charles 60.S.Suganthi Devi 61.R.Sathya 62.S.Malathi _________ https://www.mhc.tn.gov.in/judis W.P.No.48755 of 2025 63.S.Anu.H.Nair 64.R.Visalakshi 65.V.Mahalakshmi 66.Sumathi Ganesan 67.G.Karthick 68.R.Jayakumar 69.E.Babu 70.J.Earnest Jayakumar 71.P.Punitha ... Petitioners Vs. 1.The State of Tamil Nadu, Represented by its Additional Secretary, Department of Human Resource Management (FR-IV) Fort St.George, Chennai – 600 009. 2.The State of Tamil Nadu, Represented by its Secretary, Higher Education Department, Fort St.George, Chennai – 600 009. 3.The Commissioner, Directorate of Technical Education, Guindy, Chennai. 4.The Registrar, Annamalai University, Annamalai Nagar, Chidambaram- 608 002. 5.The Convenor, Vice-Chancellor Convenor Committee, Annamalai University, Chidambaram. ....Respondents PRAYER : Writ Petition filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India praying for issuance of a Writ of Mandamus, directing the respondents to _________ https://www.mhc.tn.gov.in/judis W.P.No.48755 of 2025 extend the Ph.D. incentive benefit to the redeployed teaching staff members of Annamalai University who have completed Ph.D. during the period from 01.01.2016 to 09.03.2020. For Petitioners : Mr.P.R.Murali For Respondent : Mr.M.R.Gokulakrishnan Additional Government Pleader for R1 to R3 O R D E R This Writ Petition has been filed seeking for issuance of writ of mandamus, directing the respondents to extend the Ph.D. incentive benefit to the redeployed teaching staff members of Annamalai University who have completed Ph.D. during the period from 01.01.2016 to 09.03.2020. 2. By the consent of the learned counsel appearing on either side, this writ petition is taken up for disposal at the admission stage. 3. The learned counsel appearing for the petitioners would submit that the petitioners have already sent a representation on 17.04.2025 to extend the Ph.D. incentive benefit to the redeployed teaching staff members of Annamalai University who have completed Ph.D. He would further submit _________ https://www.mhc.tn.gov.in/judis W.P.No.48755 of 2025 that this Court may issue a direction to the respondents to consider the representation and pass appropriate orders on the same within a specified time. 4. The learned Additional Government Pleader appearing for the respondents would submit that the respondents will consider the petitioner’s representation dated 17.04.2025 and pass appropriate orders on the same, in accordance with law. 5. In view of the same, the respondent concerned is directed to consider the petitioners’ representation dated 17.04.2025 and pass appropriate orders on the same, in accordance with law, within a period of six weeks from the date of receipt of a copy of this order. No costs. 18.12.2025 NCC: Yes / No Index : Yes / No Speaking Order : Yes / No kkn _________ https://www.mhc.tn.gov.in/judis W.P.No.48755 of 2025 To 1.The Additional Secretary, State of Tamil Nadu, Department of Human Resource Management (FR-IV) Fort St.George, Chennai – 600 009. 2.The Secretary, State of Tamil Nadu, Higher Education Department, Fort St.George, Chennai – 600 009. 3.The Commissioner, Directorate of Technical Education, Guindy, Chennai. 4.The Registrar, Annamalai University, Annamalai Nagar, Chidambaram- 608 002. 5.The Convenor, Vice-Chancellor Convenor Committee, Annamalai University, Chidambaram. _________ https://www.mhc.tn.gov.in/judis W.P.No.48755 of 2025 M.DHANDAPANI, J. KKN W.P.No.48755 of 2025 18.12.2025 _________ https://www.mhc.tn.gov.in/judis