2293 97 of 1982 etc
Under Article 32 of the Constitution of India section Markandeya AV Rangam G Goswami KB Rohtagi Tara Chand Sharma
Mrs Chitra Markandeya section Mitter Ms Abha Jain NS Das Bahl A Subba Rao M Qurnaruddin PN Ramalingam DK Garg AK Goel HK Puri R Venkatarama ni AS Pundir Mukul Mudgal RNKeswani Mrs Rani Chha bra SK Gupta HS Parihar SK Bisaria KC Dua NN Sharma Prem Malhotra Dalveer Bhandari BR Aggarwal SC Pate SK Verma Mrs M Karanjawala KB Rohtagi RP Singh AN Bardiyar VK Verma RP Gupta Shakeel Ahmed and Mrs Urmila Sirur for the Petitioners
Anil Dev Singh Ashok Grover Ms A Subhashini Mrs 794 Shobha Dikshit Raju Ramachandran PK Ghosh KL Goyal HS Parihar and PP Singh for the Respondent
PH Parekh KK Gupta and Amlan Ghosh for the Interveners
The Judgment of the Court was delivered by CHINNAPPA REDDY J
The Uttar Pradesh Legislature enact ed the Uttar Pradesh Industrial Area Development Act 1976 for the constitution of an authority for the development of certain areas in the State into industrial and urban town ships and for matters connected therewith
The New Okhla Development Area Authority NOIDA was constituted under the provisions of this Act
NOIDA acquired vast extends of land in the autskirts of Delhi for the purpose of developing an industrial and urban township
NOIDA announced two schemes called LIG EWS and MIG Schemes and invited applications for allotment of houses constructed and proposed to be con structed by them
Several thousand applications were re ceived and NOIDA announced closure of the schemes on Decem ber 11 1980
Though in the original advertisement relating to the LIG EWS scheme there was no reservation of allotment in favour of any class of persons it appears that later on NOIDA decided to reserve a certain percentage of houses for some categories of persons in the following manner 1 Persons whose land has been acquired by NOIDA for the development of NOlDA  2 2 Enterpreneurs of NOIDA and their employees  17 3 Employees of NOIDA UP State Government under taking UP State Development Authorities and UP Government  15 4 Employees of Central Government Government of India Public Undertakings International Organisations  5 5 Political Sufferers  5 6 Nominees of HUDCO  20 795 So far as the MIG houses are concerned the reservation was mentioned even in the original advertisement inviting appli cations for allotment of houses
Forty disappointed applicants for allotment of LIG EWS houses filed writ petition No 220 of 1981 primarily ques tioning the reservation in favour of enterpreneurs and seeking a direction that the claims of the petitioners for allotment should be considered in any future scheme
A Rule Nisi was issued by the court on April 4 1981 and on May 8 1981 an interim order was also made restraining NOIDA from making any fresh allotment of houses without obtaining the previous order of the court
Another group of six persons who had applied for allotment of MIG houses filed Writ Petition Nos
2292 97 of 1982 and a similar interim order was made in these petitions also on March 1982
On the same day that is March 12 1982 the application for interim directions in Writ Petition No 220 of 1981 came up before another bench and an order was made therein permitting NOIDA to assign numbers to houses which had already been allotted but directing NOIDA to reserve 40 houses so that the peti tioners could be accommodated if they succeeded in the writ petition
What is important to be noted here is that by March 1982 only 40 persons had approached this court in the matter of allotment of houses under the LIG EWS Scheme and six persons in the matter of allotment of houses under the MIG Scheme
Thereafter there appear to have been several hundred petitions of each category
On April 30 1984 all the petitions were heard together and an order was made by this court consisting of DA Desai and RB Misra JJ
in the following terms Mr AM Srivastava the Court Master is appointed as Court officer to do the following things By our order dated March 12 1982 this court directed that respondents will not allot 40 houses till the disposal of the writ petition
Mr OP Rana learned counsel states that this order was understood by the respondents to mean that 40 houses shall be kept vacant both in EWS Group and LIG Group
These 40 houses are available for allotment in each of the aforementioned groups
We direct that the petitions in each EWS and LIG group who are desirous of having allotment of one of the houses reserved for the group shall immediately give their names with registration numbers latest by May 31 1984 to 796 Mr AM Srivastava the Court Officer ap pointed by the Court
He shall keep a register in which he will register the name of each such intending original applicant with the registration number
Each such applicant shall also state that he will abide by the order of this Court with respect to interest and inci dental management charges that the Court may determine in case of EWS and LIG allotments
In respect of these 40 houses in each group the price will be the old price at which the house in each group was advertised The respondent shall submit a statement within four weeks from today speci fying the split up of the amount worked out as price of each house in EWS group ranging from 27000 to Rs35000 specifically referring to the component of price of the land included in the computation The respondents shall submit a statement specifying how cost of construction per sq
metre in respect of EWS and MIG is determined
If houses in any group is subsi dised without disclosing the names and nature of the subsidies the same shall be disclosed
Only the original applicants for the EWS and LIG group will be entitled for allotment but no one is entitled to cross the group in which registration was obtained Mr OP Rana learned counsel for the respondents states that respondents have 347 houses of Type III which could be provided to applicants in MIG group and 621 quarters in type II which could be allotted to applicants in LIG group
It appears that LIG and MIG have acquired new designation as type III and Type II group
It is therefore desirable to permit applicants registered in MIG to be grouped together with type III group and LIG with type II group Fair play and justice demands subject to just exception applicants regis tered in MIG and LIG groups must be allowed to participate in draw of lot for houses in Type III and Type II houses with this reservation that each of the applicants in either LIG or MIG shall undertake to pay prize as now fixed namely Rs152000 for MIG house each and Rs59000 for LIG house type III and type II respec 797 tively
It is hereby clarified that those who had registered in MIG group earlier shall be entitled to participate for the allotment of type III quarters and those who had applied for LIG group shall be entitled to participate for allotment of type II quarters
Each one of the applicant who desires to participate shall follow the same prescribed procedure as herein indicated giving the necessary undertaking that he will abide by the direction of the Court
The applicants will give their names and registration number latest by May 3 l 1984
Six weeks thereafter the respondents shall proceed to draw the lot for allotment if there are more applications than the available number of quarters in the presence of the Court Officer who shall hold and supervise the draw with the assistance of the NOIDA AUTHORI TIES and each one who succeed in the draw of lot shall be put in actual possession within four weeks thereafter The Nodia authorities will give wide publicity to this order Learned counsel on either side will exchange the responses to various proposals rooted out within two or three days from today and the matters will be listed after summer vacation
 On July 17 1984 the earlier order was clarified in the following manner 1 Pursuant to the order dated March 12 1982 the NOIDA authorities were directed not to allot 40 houses to anyone so that the petitioners if they succeed in the Writ Peti tion will not be denied houses for want of sufficient number of houses
Therefore 40 houses were reserved in WP No 228 of 1981
The lot to be drawn in this case is amongst the 40 petitioners with regard to which houses should be given not anyone else but to those who are entitled to participate in the lots for these 40 houses
2 When we refer to the petitioners appli cants in our order dated April 30 1984
It is clarified that all these persons who have moved either by way of appellants or Writ Petitioners and who had deposited the amount and those who had re deposited the amount under the orders of 798 this Court and accepted by the NOIDA authori ties in consonance with the order of this court all of them shall form one class for participating in the lot
Mr AM Srivastava Court Master should carry put the directions as herein directed to supervise the draw of the lot by the NOIDA authorities and complete the draw within one month from today
We are satisfied that the persons who have made the applications within the time bound programme shall be entitled to partici pate in the proceedings in the draw of the lot
 It will be noticed that though there was an order in favour of the 40 petitioners in Writ Petition No 228 of 1981 that forty LIG EWS houses may be released to them there was no similar order in favour of the petitioners in Writ Petition Nos
2292 97 of 1982 to release MIG houses in their favour notwithstanding that they stood on the same footing
This question was considered on March 25 1985 and an order was made directing the release of five MIG houses to IL Dhin gra HK Bhatia
CS Tomar Jagan Nath and Gian Chand petitioners in Writ Petition Nos
2293 97 of 1982
The stay granted by the court earlier which prevented delivery of the possession of houses to persons to whom houses were originally allotted was vacated
It will thus be seen that as a result of the various orders made by the court from time to time the forty petitioners in Writ Petition No 228 of 1981 and five petitioners in Writ Petition Nos
2293 97 of 1982 were accommodated in the two schemes and all those who took advantage of the order of the court dated April 30 1984 were also accommodated
We do not think that it is either possible or permissible for this court to give any further direction in these matters
The orders made at several stages of these petitions should really conclude the matter
Shri Markandeya learned counsel for the petitioners urged that the reservation made by NOIDA in favour of some of the categories of persons above mentioned was bad
Keep ing in view the object of the Act under which NOIDA was constituted prima facie the reservation in favour of political sufferers and employees of Central Government Government of India Public Undertakings and International Organisations appears to us to be bad while reservation in favour of persons whose land was been acquired entrepre neurs and NOIDA employees and employees of NOIDA appears to be sound
Reservation in favour of persons belonging to scheduled castes Scheduled tribes and back 799 ward classes was not questioned before us
Reservation in favour of nominees of HUDCO was questioned but it appears to us to be prima facie justifiable as HUDCO is the principal financier of the schemes
However
in the circumstances of these cases we do not propose to probe further into the question of the validity of the reservations as we think that the petitioners in the writ petitions other than Writ Petition Nos 228 of 1981 and 2293 97 of 1982 are not enti tled to any relief as they cannot be said to have acted with that degree of promptitude which is expected in matters of this nature where apart from the fact that rights of other parties intervene straightaway when allotment is made in their favour it is not in the public interest that housing schemes etc
such as the present schemes should be kept in abeyance or hanging fire when the need is urgent
However by virtue of the orders made by the court from time to time some of them have been benefited by allotment of houses which were available and such benefits as have accrued to them will stand
The petitioners in Writ Petition No 228 of 1981 and Writ Petition Nos
2293 97 of 1982 have been allot ted houses pursuant to the interim orders of this court and no further orders are necessary in their case
All the writ petitions are therefore dismissed but subject to the allotments made from time to time pursuant to the orders of this Court
PS S Petitions dismissed


Summary:
The New Okhla Development Area Authority NOIDA consti tuted under the provisions of the Uttar Pradesh Industrial Area Development Act 1976 for the development of an indus trial and urban township and for matters connected there with announced two schemes called LIG EWS and MIG Schemes and invited applications for allotment of houses constructed and proposed to be constructed
Later on it decided to reserve a certain percentage of houses in the first scheme for some categories of persons1 persons whose land had been acquired for development 2 entrepreneurs of the area and their employees 3 employees of NOIDA Authority UP State Government undertakings UP State Development Au thorities and UP Government 4 employees of Central Government Government of India Public Undertakings Inter national Organisations 5 political sufferers and 6 nominees of HUDCO
For the MIG Group of houses reservation was mentioned in the original advertisement
Forty disappointed applicants for allotment of LIGEWS houses filed a writ petition questioning reservation in favour of entrepreneurs
Another group of six persons who had applied for allotment of MIG houses also filed writ petitions
After interim orders were made in these two sets of petitions on March 12 1982 several hundred more peti tions in each category were also filed
All these petitions were heard together on April 30 1984
As a result of the various orders made by the Court from time to time forty petitioners of the first category and five petitioners of the second category were accommodated in the two 793 schemes and all those who took advantage of the order dated April 30 1984 were also accommodated
Disposing of the writ petitions the Court HELD Keeping in view the object of the Act under which the NOIDA Authority was constituted prima facie the reser vation in favour of political sufferers and employees of Central government Government of India public undertakings and international organisations was bad while reservation in favour of persons whose land has been acquired entrepre neurs of NOIDA and their employees employees of NOIDA and nominees of HUDCO was sound and justifiable
798G H 799A In matters of this nature where apart from the fact that rights of other parties intervene straightaway when allot ment is made in their favour it is not in public interest that housing schemes should be kept in abeyance or hanging fire when the need is urgent
799B C If some of the petitioners have failed to act with that degree of promptitude which is expected in such matters they are not entitled to any relief from the Court
However by virtue of the orders made by the Court from time to time some of them have been benefited by allotment of houses
Such benefits as have accrued to them will stand and no further orders are necessary
799C D