SEETHARAM REDDY, J.

( 1 ) PETITIONERS, 16 in number, belonging to the City Grandhalaya samstha, Hyderabad, filed this writ petition challenging the validity of the Rules framed by the Government under G. O. Ms. No. 1127, education, dated 28. 9. 1981 and G. O. Ms. No. 674, Education, dated 21. 3. 1967 wherein promotions from various categories are sought to be affected either by way of transfer or by direct recruitment which deprived the petitioners chances of promotion in usual course.

( 2 ) THE brief facts of the case are that the petitioners were appointed in the city Grandhajaya Samstha in various categories such as Librarian Grade III, record Assistant and so forth. They mere making a grievance of the Rules framed by the Government under Section 9 of the Andhra Pradesh Public Libraries Act, 1960.

( 3 ) THE main question that falls for determination in this writ petition is not the vires of the provision under which the government framed the rules but the preliminary burdle viz. , whether the City grandhalaya Samstha in a "local Authority" or not within the meaning of the Presidential order issued under Article 371-D of the constitution of India. The point is if the city Grandh

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