ANDHRA PRADESH STATE ROAD TRANSPORT CORPORATION
O/o the Managing Director,
Bus Bhavan, Hyderabad-624
No.P1/19(3)/2009-PO.IV
CIRCULAR No. PD-07/2009, DATED 28.02.2009.
Sub: APPEALS – Quick disposal of Appeals & Review Petitions – Further Instructions - Issued.
Ref: 1. Circular No.PD-110/1995, dated 21.12.1995.
2. Circular No.PD-36/2003, dated 26.05.2003.
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Instructions have been issued time and again that Appeals/Review Petitions should be disposed off by the Authorities concerned within 4 months from the date of receipt of the same by them. The Executive Directors were also advised to ensure that the disposal of Appeals/Review Petitions are carried out in their respective jurisdiction and to submit a monthly periodical by 10th of the following month indicating the No. of Appeals/Review Petitions pending and the number disposed off, in the prescribed proforma.
On a review of disposal of Appeals/Review Petitions, it is noticed that inordinate delay is taking place in disposing the Appeals/Review Petitions by the Authorities concerned especially by DVMs/RMs.
Prompt action in disposing the Appeals/Review Petitions within the time frame will not only avoid frustration among the aggrieved employees but also avoid submission of representations to the higher authorities.
As per Reg.24(3) of APSRTC Employees (CC&A) Regulations, 1967, the appeal shall be addressed to the authority to whom the appeal lies through the authority from whose orders the appeal is preferred and shall be submitted through the usual official channel. But, it has come to notice that the aggrieved employees are submitting Appeals/Review Petitions directly to the Appellate/Review authorities concerned without routing the same through the Unit Officers concerned.
The Unit Officers are not following the procedure laid down under Reg.25 and Reg.26 of APSRTC Employees (CC&A) Regulations, 1967 in withholding/ forwarding Appeals/Review Petitions of the employees. It is also observed that certain Unit Officers are forwarding the petitions of the employees, though no provision exists for further appeal or review petitions.
All the Unit Officers are advised to follow the procedure contained in Reg.25 & 26 of CC&A Regulations while forwarding the Petitions of the employees to the Appellate/Review Authorities and to exhibit the provisions of Reg. 24 & 25 of APSRTC Employees (CC&A) Regulations 1967, on the Notice Boards of the Units concerned, for information of the employees.
Further, a time limit of TWO MONTHS has been prescribed under Reg.23 of APSRTC Employees (CC&A) Regulations 1967 for submission of Appeals. However, the aggrieved employees are submitting time barred Appeals/Review Petitions for consideration without sufficient cause. All the Unit Officers as well as Appellate/Review Authorities shall not entertain such time barred Appeals/Review Petitions and immediately inform the Appellant about the time barred Appeals/Review Petitions.
All the Appellate/Review Authorities are advised to dispose the Appeals/Review Petitions within the stipulated period of 4 months and no Appeals or Review Petitions shall be kept pending beyond 4 months under any circumstances.
Sd/- V. DINESH REDDY
VICE CHAIRMAN &
MANAGING DIRECTOR
To
All Officers of the Corporation
// ATTESTED //
DY. CHIEF PERSONNEL MANAGER (IR&W)
Copy to: RAO/AG:RTC Branch, Mushirabad, Hyderabad.
Copy to: Secretary to Chairman/ PS to VC & MD.
Copy to: Dy.CAO(TA&INS) --- (10 Copies).
Copy to: PRO/HO for translation into Telugu.
Copy to: PO(Trg.)/HO for inclusion in the Monthly Index of Circulars (4 Copies).
Copy to: General Secretary, APSRTC Nationl Mazdoor Union, 20/1, Vigyanpuri, Vidyanagar, Hyderabad.
Copy to: General Secretary, APSRTC Employees’ Union, Satyanarayanareddy Marg, Azamabad, Hyderabad.
Copy to: General Secretary, APSRTC Staff & Workers Federation (State Office), Nanduri Prasada Rao Bhavan, 1-7-130/5, Risala Khursheed Jahi, Zamistanpur, Hyderabad.
Copy to: General Secretary, APSRTC Security Staff Welfare Association, Hyderabad,
Copy to: Notice Board & Incharge, Record Room.