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This Writ Petition raises issues as to legality of :

(i) action of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) adopting "outsourcing of employees" as a method of engaging services of the petitioners as Sanitary Supervisors (SFA), Sanitation Workers, Entomology Field Workers, Entomology Superior Field Workers, Supervisors (EFA), Superior Field Assistants on Fixed Wages,

(ii) claim of petitioners for regularization of their services in the GHMC in the said posts in the GHMC, and

14. It is the case of the GHMC that in the welfare of the workers vide Proc.No.1557/H&S/GHMC/2012/567 dt.18-02-2012, they were recognized and restructured into Sanitation Worker Groups consisting of (7) members in a group from 2012 onwards.

15. Further as per the Government orders vide G.O.Rt.No.575, dt.19- 09-2017 of the Secretary to the Government of Telangana, MA&UD, wages of the Sanitation workers, Entomology Field Workers and Entomology Superior Field Workers per month were enhanced from Rs.12,500/- to Rs.14,000/- and it is being implemented to them; and wages of Sanitary Field Assistants and Entomology Field Assistants engaged on outsourcing basis were enhanced from Rs.13,000/- to Rs.14,500/- per month.

36. The posts of Sanitary Supervisor (SFA), Sanitation Workers, Entomology Field Workers, Entomology Superior Field Workers, Supervisors (EFA), Superior Field Assistant, would undoubtedly fall under Sec.137 of the Act.

37. The GHMC has to necessarily employ on regular basis persons to discharge the duties of Sanitary Supervisor (SFA), Sanitation Workers, Entomology Field Workers, Entomology Superior Field Workers, Supervisors (EFA), Superior Field Assistants so that it can effectively discharge the duties referred to above .

75. It is not in dispute that petitioners are not discharging duties identical to the posts of Sanitary Supervisor (SFA), Sanitation Workers, Entomology Field Workers, Entomology Superior Field Workers, Supervisors (EFA), Superior Field Assistants under supervision of the GHMC for more than ten (10) years.

76. Accordingly, I also hold that the petitioners are entitled to minimum of time scale of pay attached to the posts of Sanitary Supervisor (SFA), Sanitation Workers, Entomology Field Workers, Entomology Superior Field Workers, Supervisors (EFA), Superior Field Assistants in which they are now discharging their functions till their claim for regularisation is considered by the GHMC in accordance with para 53 of the decision in Uma Devi (1 supra).