ORDER :

M.S. Ramachandra Rao, J.

The Background facts

The petitioner is working as Asst.Manager in the A.P.Industrial Development Corporation Ltd (2nd respondent) (for short ‘APIDC’) since 2013. His spouse is working as Manager in Telangana State in the Asset Management Department of the Telangana State Industrial Infrastructure Corporation (1st respondent) (for short ‘TSIDC’).

2. The erstwhile composite State of Andhra Pradesh was bifurcated into the new State of Telangana (respondent no.3) and the residuary State of Andhra Pradesh (respondent no.4) w.e.f. 2.6.2014 by the A.P. Reorganisation Act,2014.

3. Petitioner’s grievance is that he was born at Raichur in the State of Karnataka, but his entire education was in Hyderabad in the new State of Telangana; and after the bifurcation of the composite State of Andhra Pradesh into the new State of Telangana and the residuary State of Andhra Pradesh, he ought to have been allotted to the 1st respondent Corporation (TSIDC) in the State of Telangana and not to the 2nd respondent Corporation (APIDC) in the State of A.P. on ‘spouse grounds’.

4. He contends that he had given option on 27.8.2014 to the Telangana unit of the 2nd respondent to be all