INTRODUCTION:

This writ petition concerns itself with the dispute of provisionally allocating, or more appropriately, transferring, certain employees in the same organisation, in anticipation of its restructuring, and consequential reallocation of its staff on a permanent basis. Before proceeding further, the issue is to be contextualised by stating that, as on the date the cause of action arose for the petitioners to seek judicial redressal, there was one unified state and the Andhra Pradesh State Reorganisation Act had not been given full effect, as it was prior to the Appointed Day.

The petitioners, employees of the erstwhile Central Power Distribution Company Limited (APCPDCL), which, after 02.06.2014, is called Telangana Southern Power Distribution Company Limited (TGSPDCL) in terms of A.P. Re-organisation Act, 2014, have assailed in this Writ Petition the orders issued by the first respondent on 31.05.2014 provisionally allotting their services to Southern Power Distribution Company of A.P Limited (APSPDCL), the second respondent.

BACKGROUND:

The Andhra Pradesh State Electricity Board (APSEB) was formed on 01.04.1959, and continued to be in existence till the late