ORDER

This Writ Petition has been filed seeking for a Writ of Mandamus, to direct the first respondent to appoint the retired District Judge from the Tamil Nadu cadre satisfying the conditions prescribed under Section 7A and 8 of the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 as the Presiding Officer to the second respondent Tribunal within the time frame stipulated by this Court.

2. The case of the petitioner is that, he is an advocate practicing for more than 19 years in the Labour Courts, Industrial Tribunal, Central Government Industrial Tribunal cum Labour Court and this Court and he is the President of Labour Law Practitioners' Association, Chennai. After the present Presiding Officer has taken charge, the second respondent Tribunal is not working efficiently and the industrial disputes under EPF Act are pending without any progress. The specific allegation against the present Presiding Officer is that, she does not know Tamil language, thereby, she is unable to dispose of the cases, which was filed by the innocent workmen, who did not known English language and the entire proceedings are in Tamil language and it is difficult for the petitioner to translate all those papers from Tamil to E