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This writ petition has been filed by the petitioners, seeking for issuance of a Writ of Mandamus, to direct the Respondents to consider the representation dated 12.09.2019 and pass appropriate orders therein, re-designating the post of Lab Assistant (Mechanical) as Workshop Instructor and to re-structure the post of Workshop Instructor/Lab Assistants as Foreman. http://www.judis.nic.in and

2. The First Petitioner is PIPMATE WORKSHOP STAFF ASSOCIATION PUDUCHERRY (Represented by its President) and the Second Respondent is a member of the First Respondent Association. The First Petitioner is espousing the cause of workshop staff who are working as Lab Assistants/Workshop Instructors in the Mechanical Engineering Department in Polytechnic College under the control of Pondicherry Institute of Post Matric Technical Education (in short PIPMATE) and they were appointed in the year 2000 as Lab Assistants/Workshop Instructors and they have been continue in the same post till date.

3. According to the Petitioners, PIPMATE created the post of Workshop Instructors, the staffs were named as Lab Assistants and the duties of Workshop Instructors are to instruct and guides the students and inculcate the technical skills and the duties of Lab Assistants are to assist the lecturers during their practical teaching.

4. The grievance of the Petitioners is that though PIPMATE has been treating both the posts of Lab Assistants and Workshop Instructors as one and the same, but till date no administrative order has been issued to that extent. http://www.judis.nic.in and While the implementation of recommendation of the VI pay, the AICTE has directed the PIPMATE, to treat the Workshop Superintendent on par with lecturer, but PIPMATE contrary to the above AICTE guidelines, has not filled the post of Foreman/Workshop Superintendent by promotion from among the Lab Assistants/Workshop Instructors but filled the post with lecturers who were involved in the theory teaching line. In such circumstances, the Petitioners made a representation on 12.09.2019 to the Respondents praying to re-designate the post of Lab Assistants (Mechanical) as Workshop Instructors and to re-structure the post of Lab Assistants (Mechanical)/Workshop Instructors as Foreman and also to promote the eligible incumbents.