IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM PRESENT : THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE P.N.RAVINDRAN TUESDAY, THE 31ST MAY 2011 / 10TH JYAISHTA 1933 WP(C).No. 14526 of 2011(M) -------------------------- PETITIONER(S): --------------- A.V.SURENDRAN, S/O. VELAYUDHAN, MANAGING PARTNER, PUSHPAK TRANSPORT, ROOM NO.3, PALACE BUILDING, THRISSUR. BY ADV. SRI.G.PRABHAKARAN SMT.R.PADMAKUMARI RESPONDENT(S): --------------- THE SECRETARY, REGIONAL TRANSPORT AUTHORITY, THRISSUR-680 001. GOVERNMENT PLEADER SRI.BASANT BALAJI THIS WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) HAVING COME UP FOR ADMISSION ON 31/05/2011, THE COURT ON THE SAME DAY DELIVERED THE FOLLOWING: P.N.RAVINDRAN, J. ----------------------------------------- W.P(C).No.14526 of 2011 ----------------------------------------- Dated this the 31st May, 2011 JUDGMENT The petitioner is a stage carriage operator operating a stage carriage on the route Kadangode-Ayyanthole-Thrissur on the strength of a regular permit. He applied for a variation of the permit by extending the service from Athani to Medical College and from Erumapetty to Kadangode. The Regional Transport Authority that met on 25.2.2011 considered the application and having regard to the report of the Field Officer that the proposed variation will be beneficial to the travelling public resolved to grant the same subject to settlement of timings. Ext.P1 is the proceedings of the Regional Transport Authority in that regard. The grievance voiced by the petitioner is that though more than three months have passed thereafter till date the time schedule has not been settled and the varied permit has not been issued. In this writ petition the petitioner seeks a direction to the respondent to settle the timings and make necessary endorsement on the original of the permit. W.P(C) NO.14526/2011 -:2:- 2. Sri.Basant Balaji, learned Government Pleader appearing for the respondent, submitted that in view of the recitals in Ext.P1 itself and the report of the Field Officer to the effect that the variation sought by the petitioner will be beneficial to the travelling public the respondent will settle the timings and make the endorsement in the original of the permit expeditiously. In the light of the said submission I dispose of the writ petition with a direction to the respondent to settle the timings and endorse the variation on the original of the permit expeditiously and in any event within one month from the date on which the petitioner produces a copy of this judgment before him. P.N.RAVINDRAN, Judge. ahg. P.N.RAVINDRAN, J. --------------------------- W.P(C).No.14526 of 2011 ---------------------------- JUDGMENT 31st May, 2011