THE HON’ BLE SRI JUSTICE NAGESH BHEEMAPAKA WRIT PETITION No.5433 of 2019

ORDER:

The case of the petitioner, as per the writ affidavit, is that he was appointed as a Lecturer in 1984 in6^th respondent-MVSR Engineering College, Nadergul, Hyderabad, and later promoted to Associate Professor under the Merit Promotion Scheme w.e.f. 31-12-1993. He filed the present Writ Petition aggrieved by the notice issued by the Principal vide Ref. MVSREC/B-11/19 dated 23.02.2019 informing that he would attain superannuation on 20.03.2019 and would be relieved on 31.03.2019, despite the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) Notification dated 01.03.2019 explicitly prescribing the superannuation age of all faculty members as 65 years under Clause 2.1.2, with a possible extension to 70 years based on fitness and academic contributions. Though the Petitioner obtained a copy of the said Notification only on 09.03.2019 and immediately submitted a representation dated 11.03.2019 requesting withdrawal of the superannuation notice, no action was taken by the respondents.The petitioner earlier faced discriminatory pay fixation despite his 1993 promotion, and led to his filing W.P. No.23767 of 2002 w