HC slaps notice on ECIL

HYDERABAD: Justice Vilas Afzalpurkar of the AP High court on Wednesday ordered notice to the management of Electronics Corporation of India Limited (ECIL) in a writ petition filed by its employees union questioning its alleged forcible eviction from the union office. The petitioner has been in existence for a very long time and has been contributing to the welfare of the employees and unless proper accommodation is provided to the petitioner trade union, it would not be in a position to effectively work for the welfare of the workers, the union said.
It was also contended that the building from which it has been evicted was the one it has been utilizing since many decades and in fact ever since the said building was constructed.The management had evicted the union after it lost its status as the majority union. The petitioner union would contend that independent of its majority status, it should be given such accommodation even on the ground of industrial practices.
The judge also ordered notice to the public sector company and the union government in another writ petition filed by the said union questioning the action of the management for extending the " check off " system for making deduction of subscription from its members . The petitioner union pointed out that a nominal fixed amount is deducted from the salary of the employees towards subscription fee of the petitioner union and the amount so deducted is transferred to the petitioner union. The petitioner would contend that the said 'check-off' system was a unique model evolved by the ECIL workers and the management and has been acclaimed by many to be a very worker-friendly model. The decision of the management to extend the benefit only to the majority union and not to the petitioner was questioned as being arbitrary and illegal. Justice Vilas Afzalpurkar granted four weeks time to the management to respond to the petition.
Justice Nooty Rammohan Rao of the AP High Court on Wednesday ordered notice to the government in a writ petition seeking a declaration that the procedure to be followed for land survey must be the Telangana method and not the electronic method as being done by the government. The writ petition was filed in the context of about 300 acres of land in Kukatpally village. The land in question is subject matter of a private dispute between two rival groups.
The petitioner, P Satyanarayana, would contend that the said action was unfair and unjust and contrary to the well established practice followed in the region. The claim by the rival claimant was that the GPS system was accurate. According to the ancient method, the telescope is placed on a tripod stand and readings physically recorded. The government refused to grant any interim order.