there is a surplus of personnel, to stations where the respondent Council is facing a shortage of personnel. The only exception, in Ext.P2 transfer order, is with regard to Sl.No.1 namely, Smt.Roshni N.I., who appears to have been transferred from Wayanad to Thrissur District. The learned counsel for the petitioner would, no doubt, point out that if the stand of the respondent is that there is a shortage of personnel in Wayanad, then the fact of transfer of Smt.Roshni from Wayanad to Thrissur contradicts the said stand of the respondent. Counsel for the respondent Council, however, clarifies that the said transfer was necessitated on account of a request put in by the said Smt.Roshni, who had completed more than two years in the hill-tract and was therefore eligible for seeking transfer to another station, as per Ext.P1 norms. As regards the contentions of the petitioners, in general, with regard to the non-compliance with Ext.P1 norms, I find that, in Ext.P1 norms, there are two types of transfers contemplated, namely, transfers that are effected under exigencies of service and those that are based on a request from the employee concerned. The transfers effected under exigencies of service can either be in the nature of a general transfer or specific instances, other than general transfer. A perusal of Ext.P2 order
