ORDER

1. Leave granted.

2. The A.P. Public Service Commission had issued an advertisement on 20-4-1992 calling for applications for recruitment to the posts of Assistant Motor Vehicles Inspectors in Andhra Pradesh Transport Subordinate Service. Though appellants had applied for the said posts, since they possessed only the qualification of Diploma in Mechanical Engineering, they were not called for interview. The appellants, therefore, filed O.A. Nos. 2757 of 1992 and batch in the A.P. Administrative Tribunal questioning the competence of Degree in Mechanical Engineering or Degree in Automobile Engineering or Diploma in Automobile Engineering or any equivalent qualification as conditions for recruitment, contending that it was the Central Government which had been conferred with the power under Section 213(4) of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988, for short the Act, of prescribing the qualifications for appointment to any office or class of officers under the Act, which had prescribed the following :

"1. Qualifications : .

(1) Minimum general educational qualification of a pass in Xth standard; and

(2) (i) a Diploma in Mechanical Engineering (3-year course) or

(iii) a Diploma in Mechanical Eng