THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE NOOTY RAMAMOHANA RAO WRIT PETITION No. 25720 OF 2011 O R D E R : This Writ Petition has been instituted seeking a declaration that the inaction of the respondents in processing the application submitted by the writ petitioner dated 10.08.2011 for grant of quarry lease for black granite over an extent of 1.670 hectares in Survey Nos. 1/14 & 1/13 of Rangasamudram Village, P.T.M. Mandal, Chittoor District, as bad in law. Learned Government Pleader for Revenue submits that the Tahsildar, P.T.M. Mandal will be completing the necessary task of survey and demarcation of land and he will be submitting his report within the next three weeks time to the Assistant Director of Mines and Geology, Chittoor with a copy marked to the District Collector, Chittoor. Thereafter, the District Collector may examine the report of the Tahsildar and submit his opinion thereon to the Director of Mines and Geology, within a period of 30 days from the date of receipt of the Tahsildar’s report. Thereafter, the Director of Mines and Geology may consider the entire matter and take an appropriate decision and communicate the same to the petitioner within a further period of 30days. I need to remind the Director of Mines and Geology that while dealing with Writ Petition No. 24464 of 2011 on 07.09.2011, I directed a special condition relating to deposit of Rs.5 lacs for every hectare of land over which quarrying rights are conferred, to be incorporated for the purpose of compulsory afforestation. The same condition shall hold good even in the instant case. With this, the Writ Petition stands disposed of. No costs. ---------------------------------------------- (NOOTY RAMAMOHANA RAO, J) 26th September 2011 ksld