APHC010053902025 IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMARAVATI (Special Original Jurisdiction) [3331] WEDNESDAY ,THE FIFTH DAY OF FEBRUARY TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY FIVE PRESENT THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE SUBBA REDDY SATTI WRIT PETITION NO: 2869/2025 Between: Korabu Venkata Ratnam and Others ...PETITIONER(S) AND The State Of Andhra Pradesh and Others ...RESPONDENT(S) Counsel for the Petitioner(S): 1. G CHANDRA SHAKHAR RAO Counsel for the Respondent(S): 1. GP FOR SERVICES II The Court made the following ORDER: Heard Sri G.Chandra Sekhar Rao, learned counsel for the petitioners and Sri Sarath, learned Assistant Government Pleader for Services-II for the respondents. 2. The above writ petition is filed to declare the action of the respondents in not disposing of the representation dated 04.01.2025 of the petitioners for regularization of their services as SA/SGT, as illegal and arbitrary. 3. All the petitioners belong to the ST community and completed their degrees and B.Ed. All the petitioners were appointed on various dates as Contract Residential Teachers by the 4th respondent and have been 2 discharging their duties. The State Government enacted A.P. Regularization of Services of Contract Employees, 2023 (Act 30 of 2023) to regularize the services of employees working under a contract basis. The Government also issued G.O.Ms.No.114 Finance Department, dated 21.10.2023. 4. Learned counsel for the petitioners would submit that in pursuance of G.O.Ms.No.114, dated 21.10.2023, a list of Contractual Residential Teachers was prepared. However, no further steps have been taken and hence, the petitioners made a representation dated 04.01.2025 (Ex.P.1) to the 4th respondent. Complaining non-consideration of the representation of the petitioners, the above writ petition is filed. 5. At the hearing, learned counsel for the petitioners confined his arguments and urged this Court to direct the 4th respondent to consider the representation dated 04.01.2025 (Ex.P.1) and pass appropriate orders as per the Rules. 6. Learned Assistant Government Pleader for Services did not refute the said submission. 7. A perusal of the material available on record, in pursuance of Act 30 of 2023, the Project Officers of Integrated Tribal Development Agency (ITDA) examined the service particulars of Contract Residential Teachers working in ITDAs who were appointed before 02.06.2014. The same was forwarded to the Government. Since the services of the petitioners are not regularized, the petitioners made Ex.P.1 representation. 8. Indeed, directing the authorities to consider the representation is deprecated by the Hon’ble Apex Court in Government of India v. P.Venkatesh1. 1 (2019) 8 SCALE 544 3 9. Since the interim relief and the main relief in the writ petition are the same keeping the writ petition will not serve any purpose. 10. Given the facts and circumstances of the case, the Writ Petition is disposed of at the admission stage with the consent of learned counsel on either side directing the 4th respondent to consider petitioners’ representation dated 04.01.2025 (Ex.P.1) and pass appropriate orders, strictly as per the Rules. No order as to costs. As a sequel, pending miscellaneous petitions, if any, shall stand closed. ___________________________ JUSTICE SUBBA REDDY SATTI Date: 05.02.2025 KA 4 THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE SUBBA REDDY SATTI WRIT PETITION NO: 2869/2025 Date: 05.02.2025 KA