V.V.S.Rao, J.

1. The petitioner is working as a Clerk in Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation (APSRTC). Disciplinary enquiry was conducted by the third respondent. The Secretary, APSRTC, PF Trust, issued orders on 02.08.2006 reducing the pay of the petitioner by one incremental stage for a period of two years. Aggrieved by the same, he preferred an appeal to the Deputy Chief Accounts Officer (T&S), who rejected the same, on 09.10.2006. He, thereafter, filed O.A.No.17294 of 2008. The Registry of the Andhra Pradesh Administrative Tribunal (hereafter, Administrative Tribunal) raised an objection as to the maintainability in O.A.SR.No.17294 of 2008. By an order, dated 05.10.2010, the learned Administrative Tribunal upheld the office objection observing that the Government has not issued any notification vesting jurisdiction on the Administrative Tribunal to adjudicate the matters pertaining the service conditions of APSRTC employees. This order is assailed in the writ petition.

2. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that when the A.P.Administrative Tribunal Act, 1985 (the Act, for brevity) was enacted, Section 2 excluded the members of naval, military or ai