M. Hemanth Kumar v. The Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation
Service law – Regularisation/decasualisation – APSRTC (Vijayawada Region)
Case brief
What is this about?
Batch: W.P.Nos. 43130, 43067 and 42900 of 2018 (common order), High Court of Andhra Pradesh at Amaravati, Justice V. Sujatha, decided 20.07.2026. Keywords: APSRTC; regularisation date of casual drivers and conductors; decasualisation w.e.f. 01.07.2009; G.O.Ms.No.285 dated 05.10.2007 (recruits up to March 1999); G.O.Ms.No.145 dated 01.07.2009 (recruits up to 2001); Notification No.P2/684(1)/2000-R.M(V) dated 30.08.2000; notification dated 10.10.1999; Office Orders OS4/255(25)/2006-PO-III and OS4/255(36)/2007-PO-III; parity with earlier batch; W.P.No.14783 of 2010 and batch (order dated 12.10.2011); W.P.No.20794 of 2010; C.C.No.1960 of 2018; Article 226; Vijayawada Region, Krishna District; writ petitions dismissed, no costs.
What did the court decide?
Since the petitioners were not appointed pursuant to the notification dated 10.10.1999, the question of regularizing them in terms of G.O.Ms.No.285, dated 05.10.2007 would not arise and that G.O. is not applicable to them; regularization of various posts in the respondent corporation is taken up in a phased manner as and when approved by the Government, and the petitioners cannot claim regularization with effect from 05.10.2007 on par with the employees recruited pursuant to the notification dated 10.10.1999.