(Per Ramesh Ranganathan, J.)

W.P. No. 6068 of 2004 is filed against the order of the Andhra Pradesh Administrative Tribunal in O.A. No. 6334 of 1997. W.P. Nos. 6123 of 2004 and 16890 of 2006 are filed against the order in O.A. No. 1854 of 1997.

2. O.A. No. 1854 of 1997 and batch, which included O.A. No. 6334 of 1997, was allowed by the Tribunal, in its order dated 27-03-2003, and the rules in G.O.Ms. No. 14 dated 26-11-1994, as amended in G.O.Ms. No. 22 dated 09-05-1996, to the extent they provided a channel for the senior assistants and senior stenographers, working in the head office of the labour, factories and boiler departments and subordinate offices of the factories and boilers department, to be appointed by transfer to the post of assistant labour officer and the related provisions providing for quota and rotation etc., to these categories, were declared void being violative of the mandatory provisions of the A.P. Public Employment (Organisation of Local Cadres and Regulation of Direct Recruitment) Order, 1975 (hereinafter referred to as the Presidential Order) and the respondents in the O.A. were directed not to give effect to these provisions. The Tribunal, however, h