1967 (10) TMI 69

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.... the Corporation issued a notice inviting applications for appointments to class 11 junior posts of (a) assistant/divisional statisticians and (b) labour welfare officers on a pay of Rs. 220 per month in the pay scale of Rs. 220-15-400-EB-20-500 plus the usual dearness and other allowances admissible under the Rules. On August 11, 1964, the respondent tiled a writ petition in the High Court at Mysore claiming that the Corporation had no power to issue the notice and praying for an order quashing it. The High Court allowed the petition and quashed the notice. The Corporation has filed this appeal by special leave. For the proper appreciation of the point in issue, it is necessary to read ss. 14 19(1)(a), 19(1)(b), 19(1)(c), 34. 45(1) and ....

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....ce and training of its employees, wages to be paid to the employees, reserves to be maintained by it and disposal of its profits or stocks. (2) In the exercise of its powers and performance of its duties under this Act, the Corporation shall not depart from any general instructions issued under sub-section (1) except with the previous permission of the State Government. 45(1). A Corporation may, with the previous sanction of the State Government. make regulations, not inconsistent with this Act and the rules made "thereunder, for the administration of the affairs of the Corporation. (2) In particular, and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing power, such regulations may provide for all or any of the....

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....ether the appellant had the power to appoint officers and servants and to lay down their conditions of service in the absence of regulations framed under s. 45(2)(c) of the Road Transport Corporation Act, 1950. The appellant is an autonomous Corporation incorporated under the Act for the purpose of operating road transport services in the State and extended areas. For the proper discharge of its functions, it is necessary for the Corporation to appoint officers and servants. Section 14(2) expressly coners upon the Corporation the incidental power to appoint such officers and servants as it considers necessary for the efficient performance of its functions. Section 19(1)(c) empowers it to provide for its employees suitable conditions of serv....