HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE NAGESH BHEEMAPAKA WRIT PETITION No. 32364 OF 2017

O R D E R:

Petitioner questions the action of Respondents in not implementing the Resolution passed by the 3^rd Respondent on 08.03.2007 for payment of salary on par with the Director of Gurukulams, and instead paying a consolidated pay of Rs.37,000/- against the entitled Rs.72,848/-.

2. Petitioner, being an M.B.A., LL.B. and Ph.D. in Business Management, with 16 years of industrial and 13 years of academic experience, responded to an advertisement issued by the 1^st Respondent - A.P. State Council of Higher Education, applied for the post of Director and underwent selection process. However, the then Chairman of the Council appointed him as Coordinator, 21^st Century Gurukulams, by order dated 20.01.2007 with consolidated pay of Rs.8000-16000 treating the same as equivalent to the starting pay of a Lecturer in the UGC

1996.

While so, the Governing Council of Consortium of Institutions of Higher Learning, by Resolution dated 08.03.2007, enhanced petitioner’s his salary on par with the Director, 21^st Century Gurukulams. By the said Resolution, the Director’s pay was fixed at Rs.25,000/- with free accommodation and board