HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY WRIT PETITION No.31432 of 2011 Date: 29.11.2011 Between: Lalitha Girijana Mahila Mandali, Vijayawada, Reptd by its President- Ms Bhookya Balamma ..... Petitioner AND The District Collector, Krishna District at Machilipatnam and two others. .....Respondents Counsel for the Petitioner: Sri K.Jyothi Prasad Counsel for the Respondents: AGP for Social Welfare The Court made the following: ORDER: This Writ Petition is filed for a Mandamus to declare the action of the respondents in issuing tender notification vide R.C.No.A2/212/2010, dated 22.11.2011, whereby tenders are invited for stitching and supply of 24,800 pairs of uniforms for the inmates of social welfare hostels in Krishna District as illegal and arbitrary. The petitioner is a society constituted with women belonging to scheduled tribes. The society is running dress making unit-cum- training centre in Vijayawada. It is enjoying the patronage of garment departments which have been placing orders on it for supply of uniforms, etc. The petitioner felt aggrieved by the impugned tender notification, whereby respondent No.1 has invited tenders for supply of 24,800 pairs of uniforms to 6,200 students belonging to backward classes. Consideration of tenders is restricted to tailoring institutes/women organizations imparting training in stitching. The sole ground on which the petitioner questioned the action of respondent No.1 in inviting tenders is that under G.O.Ms.No.52, Transport, Roads and Buildings B-1-1 Department, dated 18.03.2000, such works are reserved for Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Wadderas Labour Co-Operative Contract Societies. At the hearing, learned counsel for the petitioner placed reliance on para 4 (iv) of the said G.O., to buttress the petitioner’s plea that the works in respect of which tenders are called for are reserved. This clause reads as under: - “All the civil works benefiting the tribals shall be entrusted to VTDCS/Mahila Sanghams/Societies comprising of the local tribals on nomination basis, irrespective of financial limits where the SC/ST/Wadderas Labour Co-Operative Contract Societies and individuals belonging to SC/ST/Wadderas are not available. This in particular applies to Agency Areas.” A perusal of the said G.O., would show that the same relates to the contract works undertaken by Public Works departments such as Panchayat Raj, Roads and Buildings and Irrigation and they are in the nature of civil works such as construction of buildings, laying roads and other irrigation works. Para 4 (iv) of the said G.O., which is extracted hereinabove has, in fact, used the expression “civil works” in tune with the nature of the above-mentioned works. Therefore, the whole premise on which the Writ Petition is filed namely that G.O.Ms.No.52, dated 18.03.2000, comprehends a work such as stitching and supply of dresses is thus misplaced. In the absence of any right conferred on the petitioner for insisting on awarding the works on nomination basis, it has no enforceable right against the respondents to prevent them from proceeding with the tender process. Indeed, as supply of dresses involves huge public money, it is always desirable that the works are entrusted through tender process to save the money for the State exchequer. In this view of the matter, I do not find any merit in the Writ Petition and the same is, accordingly, dismissed. As a sequel to dismissal of the writ petition, W.P.M.P.No.39009 of 2011 filed by the petitioner for interim relief is dismissed as infructuous. __________________________ C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY, J 29th November 2011 DR