AP Intermediate Board should prepare staff seniority lists: HC

Writ petition filed by three employees

The Telangana High Court has directed the Andhra Pradesh Board of Intermediate Education to prepare the final seniority lists of employees of all categories as on June 2, 2014, within two months for allocation of employees between the Intermediate boards of AP and Telangana. A bench of justices M.S. Ramachandra Rao and T. Vinod Kumar pronounced this verdict in a writ petition filed by three employees seeking division of employees of the BIE of erstwhile AP between Intermediate boards of AP and Telangana. The judgment said the two boards, based on seniority lists, should discuss with each other and agree on the modalities for allocation of employees. The division of employees must be done within a month of finalisation of the modalities. The bench clarified that limitation period of one year prescribed under Section 82 of AP Reorganisation Act for finalising modalities for distribution of employees was not mandatory. It also held that failure to complete apportionment of the assets and liabilities of the entities of IX and X Schedules would have no bearing on distribution of employees.