THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE V.V.S.RAO WRIT PETITION No.25942 of 2009 12.04.2010 Between: L.Ravinder ….Petitioner AND The Government of Andhra Pradesh, rep.by Special Grade Deputy Collector cum Revenue Divisional Officer, Chevella Division, R.R.District and others. …Respondents THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE V.V.S.RAO WRIT PETITION No.25942 OF 2009 ORDER: The petitioner was appointed as Fair Price Shop (FPS) dealer of Janwada-II by proceedings dated 03.01.2010. As many as 400 ration cards are attached to the shop. According to petitioner, his shop distributes essential commodities to part of Janwada Village and entire Mirzaguda, which is hamlet of Janwada Village. The petitioner’s request to the authorities to allot ration cards to Janwada-II, in vain. Therefore, he filed instant writ petition seeking a writ of Mandamus directing respondents to allot ration cards of Janwada FPS equally to Janwada-I and Janwada-II FPSs. The Special Deputy Collector cum Revenue Divisional Officer filed counter affidavit. For ready reference, the relevant portion is extracted as under. It is submitted that at the time of issue of IRIS Ration Cards the entire 1148 ration cards of Janwada Village belonging to Janwada-I and Janwada-II shops were wrongly allotted to Smt A.Sunitha, the FP Shop dealer of Janwada-I and the petitioner’s name was wrongly shown as the dealer of Mirzaguda hamlet instead of Janwada-II and the cards of Mirzaguda have been allotted to the petitioner. The card strength of Janwada village and Mirzaguda hamlet is as follows. Category wise ration cards White Pink AAY AP Total Card strength of Janwada village 1001 65 78 4 1148 Card strength of Mirzaguda hamlet 411 86 46 4 547 It is submitted that Sri L.Ravinder, R/o Janwada village was appointed as the FP Shop dealer of Janwada-II vide Spl.Grade Deputy Collector & Revenue Divisional Officer file No.E/41/1999 and authorization No.B/2189/2000 and he has supplied the Essential Commodities to the cardholders of Janwada-II upto December, 2006. At the time of issue of IRIS Ration Cards the entire 1148 ration cards of Janwada village belonging to Janwada-I and Janwada-II were wrongly allotted to Smt A.Sunitha, the FP Shop dealer of Mirzaguda hamlet instead of Janwada-II. Hence, the entire cards of Mirzaguda have been allotted to the petitioner and only one key register for entire 1148 cards has been supplied to the FP Shop dealer of Janwada-I. After knowing the facts the petitioner submitted representation with a request to bifurcate the Ration Cards of Janwada village to both the shops on equal ratio. Hence, the Tahsildar, Shankarapaly has made a proposal to the Spl. Grade Deputy Collector & Revenue Divisional Officer, Chevella for re-allocation of the Janwada ration cards to the petitioner, which is under consideration. In view of the above, as on today, no orders are passed by District Collector or the Revenue Divisional Officer bifurcating the existing Janwada FPS. Therefore, as and when appropriate orders are passed, the petitioner may approach the Revenue Divisional Officer for necessary orders. The writ petition, with the above observations, is accordingly disposed of. No costs. _______________ (V.V.S.RAO, J) 12.04.2010 Pln