IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.4985 of 2008 M/S BHAWANI ENTERPRISES Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR & ORS ----------- 02 13.08.2008 The Central Government has made a scheme to rural employment generation programme under which finance is to be made available to public sector banks. This programme is launched through Khadi and Village Industry Commission and has got various different aspects. An applicant has to make an application before the District Industry Centre for setting up such a programme, the District Industry Centre is then to evaluate and finding it in order has then to forward to the concerned bank, who has jurisdiction over the place where the programme is to be implemented. In this case, the petitioner with all due certifications and after complying with all due requirement made an application to the District Industry Centre, Rohtas, they scrutinized the same and then forwarded to the Punjab National Bank, Karwandia Branch. It appears, when the matter was examined at the level of the bank, it was found that the programme was to be implemented at village level, which did not fall within the jurisdiction of the said bank. For the purposes of the aforesaid scheme, bank by its communication dated 19.05.2007, returned all the papers to the General Manager District Industry Centre, Rohtas, who has chosen to sleep over the matter, on the pretext that the petitioner has not turned up and made any further request. I am afraid that the stand of the State is destructive of the whole scheme. This scheme is for generation of employment in rural - 2 - areas and is a benevolent social upliftment scheme to expect entrepreneurs to keep running to the District Industry Centre is putting the whole thing up side down. Had such entrepreneurs the capability and capacity to operate so efficiently? They would not have needed the help of the District Industry Centre. In any case, once the District Industry Centre was notified by the bank that they had sent to the wrong bank, it was the duty of the District Industry Centre to locate the correct bank and forward the same to the correct bank by doing that they were not doing any obligation to the petitioner, but, were only correcting mistake committed by them and were performing a part of their duty. It is a clear case, where the General Manager, District Industry Centre, Rohtas has failed to perform his statutory obligations. I am, thus, left with no alternative but to direct the General Manager, District Industry Centre, Rohtas to send the application of the petitioner to the concerned competent bank, forthwith, and not later than 15 days from today and report to the petitioner about the same in writing. Let a copy of this order be given to learned counsel for the State. With these directions, the writ petition stands disposed of. Trivedi/ (Navaniti Prasad Singh,J.)