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Zonal system in Telangana power sector challenged
A two judge bench of the High court of Hyderabad comprising Acting Chief Justice Dilip Bhosale and Justice S V Bhat on Wednesday granted time to the Telangana State government to respond in a writ plea challenging the amendments made by TS Genco, TS Transco and TSSPDCL and TSNPDCL.
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Hyderabad: A two judge bench of the High court of Hyderabad comprising Acting Chief Justice Dilip Bhosale and Justice S V Bhat on Wednesday granted time to the Telangana State government to respond in a writ plea challenging the amendments made by TS Genco, TS Transco and TSSPDCL and TSNPDCL.
The power sector companies would have to respond alongside the State government by Friday. After the formation of the new State of Telangana the rules were amended. As per this new amendment, the entire Telangana State is divided into two zones – called as North Zone and South Zone.
Any person born in one of these zones or has studied for more than 6 years in them is called as a Local Candidate for that zone. In terms of the amendment issued, if posts fall vacant in any of these zones then they are called as Local/Zonal Posts of those zones.
The ratio between the local and the non-local is divided as 70 per cent for local and 30 per cent for non – locals. For all local posts, the local candidates as defined above are entitled for 70 per cent of the posts. The rest of the posts for non -local to the extent of 30 per cent is sought to be filled in by the persons belonging to other zone by implication, all these posts are now going to be filled by persons from Telangana State only.
Dr K Lakshmi Narasimha, Counsel for Challa Narasimha Reddy and others, argued that the impugned reservations based on residence or local preference was wholly unconstitutional in as much as in terms of Article 16(2). Such power was reserved only to the Parliament of India and not to a company registered under the Companies Act.
The bench wondered as to the power of the authority to frame the impugned regulation which is ex facie contrary to Article 16 (2) and (3) of Constitution of India. The Bench further observed that in the meantime, all the petitioners should be permitted to write the examination which is scheduled to be held from November 8 onwards.
The matter was posted to Friday as the Standing Counsel sought some time to get the instructions on the feasibility of allowing the petitioners to write the examination.
