APHC010692342025 IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMARAVATI (Special Original Jurisdiction) [3460] SATURDAY,THE TWENTIETH DAY OF DECEMBER TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY FIVE PRESENT THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE NYAPATHY VIJAY WRIT PETITION NO: 35527/2025 Between: B V Kasi Ratnam and Others ...PETITIONER(S) AND The State Of Andhra Pradesh and Others ...RESPONDENT(S) Counsel for the Petitioner(S): 1. CHUKKA HARIKA Counsel for the Respondent(S): 1. GP FOR SERVICES III The Court made the following: 2 THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE NYAPATHY VIJAY W.P.No.35527 of 2025 O R DE R: Heard Ms. Chukka Harika, learned counsel for the petitioners and learned Assistant Government Pleader appearing for the respondents. With the consent of both the learned counsel, the writ petition is disposed of at the stage of admission. 2. The instant writ petition is filed seeking a direction to the respondents to consider the cases of the petitioners for regularization in terms of the provisions of the Andhra Pradesh Regularization of Services of Contract Employees Act, 2023 (for short, ‘Act 30 of 2023’) dated 20.10.2023. 3. It is contended that the petitioners were initially appointed as a junior lecturers on a contract basis in the different colleges in the regular vacancies on a full-time basis. The Government of Andhra Pradesh brought into effect the Act 30 of 2023, regularizing the services of persons appointed on a contract basis on or before 02.06.2014, who are continuing in Government Departments. 4. Learned Counsel for the Petitioners relies upon a 3 Judgment of this Court in W.P. No. 8827 of 2024 and batch in support of his contentions, wherein similarly placed employees were directed to be considered for regularization. 5. Sri S. Raju, learned Assistant Government Pleader, submits that the cases of the Petitioners for regularization are under active consideration at Government level and therefore, he contends that the present Writ Petition is premature. 6. The Section 3 of the said Act reads as under: REGULARIZATION OF SERVICES OF PERSONS APPOINTED ON CONTRACT BASIS: 3. Notwithstanding anything contained in any law/ Rule/ Notification/ Government order for the time being in force, the persons appointed on contract basis, shall be regularised, subject to fulfilment of the following conditions. (1) Regularization shall be applicable to the persons appointed on contract basis in the Government Departments only. (2) The persons should have been appointed on contract basis as on 2nd, June 2014 and should be continuing as on the date of the commencement of this Act. 4 (3) The contract appointments should have been made on full time basis only. The appointments made on Part-time, Hourly, Guest Basis, etc., shall not be considered for the purpose of regularisation. 4) The contract appointments should have been made against substantive vacancies of permanent sanctioned posts with concurrence of Finance Department under the provisions of this Act. Provided that such persons appointed on contract basis, if discontinued temporarily in vacation departments, shall also be entitled to be regularised under this Act, subject to condition (5) of Section 3; 5) The regularisation of a person appointed on contract basis shall be considered, only If his Initial appointment was in due compliance with the procedure relating to; (i) Selection Process; (ii) Rule of reservation; (iii) Eligibility,age & educational qualifications prescribed for the post; (iv) Notification of Vacancies. (6) The regularisation shall be only, against, clear vacancies after duly excluding the vacancies notified by the recruitment bodies such as Andhra Pradesh Public Service Commission (APPSC), Andhra Pradesh State Level Police Recruitment Board (APSLPRB), etc., 4) Notwithstanding anything contained in any law for the time being in force, the regularization shall be with prospective effect only i.e., with 5 effect from the date of issue of orders of regularization under this Act. The period rendered on contract basis shall not be counted for any service benefits. 5) The persons so regularized shall be governed by the provisions of the National Pension System (NPS) as adopted by the Government and with prospective effect only. 7. Having heard the respective counsel and considering the judgment of this Court in W.P.No.8827 of 2024, the present Writ Petition is disposed of with the following direction: (i) The Respondent Authorities are directed to consider the case of the Petitioner for regularization in terms of the Act 30 of 2023 on par with other contract employees as expeditiously as possible. (ii) There shall be no order as to costs. As a sequel, miscellaneous applications pending, if any, shall stand closed. __________________ NYAPATHY VIJAY, J Date: 20.12.2025 eha 6 THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE NYAPATHY VIJAY WRIT PETITION NO:35527/2025 Dt. 20.12.2025 eha