Admin panel orders pending for 16 yrs

The Hyderabad High Court has expressed displeasure at Telangana state officials for not implementing the judicial orders passed by the Andhra Pradesh Administrative Tribunal.

A division bench comprising Justice C.V. Nagarjuna Reddy and Justice G. Shyam Prasad expressed wonder that orders passed almost 16 years ago were not implemented.

The bench directed the Chief Secretary to give an undertaking that he would review all the cases where the final tribunal orders had not been implemented, and ensure they are implemented in a time-bound manner.

The bench observed, “The successful parties are forced to have to one more round of needless litigation because of the government's inaction".

The bench was dealing with a petition by Mr M. Srinivasa Rao and 19 others complaining that APAT orders passed in 2001 had not been implemented by the medical and health department.

The petitioners told the court they had approached the APAT seeking regularisation of their services; the tribunal passed an order in 2001 directing authorities to take steps to regularise their services pay appropriate wages.

The bench said, “Unfortunately, the successful parties before the tribunal are not able to enjoy their victory because of the indifferent attitude of the officials. Such inaction of the officials in implementing the judicial orders mocks at the rule of law. This kind of situation is not proper.” The case was posted to August 28.