THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE C.V.RAMULU WRIT PETITION NO.4238 OF 2004 Date: 23rd October 2006 Between: 1. The Manchal Mandal Fair Price Shop Dealers Association, rep. by its President, Sri B.Pulla Reddy, s/o B.Kistareddy, F.P.Shop Dealer, aged 50 years, R/o Manchal, R.R.District and 2 others. …. Petitioners. And 1. The Managing Director & Vice-Chairman, A.P. State Civil Supplies Corpn. Ltd., Civil Supplies Bhavan, Opp: Erramanzil, Somajiguda, Hyderabad and 2 others. …. Respondents. * * * ORDER: All the petitioners are fair price shop dealers associations in their respective mandals. It is their case that they filed a representation before the District Supply Officer, R.R.District, on 20th November 2002 and 10th December 2002 for issue of their commission calculating their distribution of rice as per their sales register and all the dealers submitted their bills and accounts before the concerned Mandal Revenue Officers and respondent No.3 and further the Government also issued G.O.Rt.No.72, dated 24.5.2002 to issue the commission to the fair price shop dealers on food for work rice at the rate of Rs.7-00 per quintal (plus) gunny bag. The third respondent issued a circular dated 21.3.2003 stating clearly that all the fair price shop dealers are entitled for commission on par with Annapurna Scheme i.e., Rs.12-92 paise per quintal. The second respondent issued another circular dated 09.4.2003 stating that the fair price shop dealers are eligible for a commission of Rs.7-00 per quintal under SGRY and FFW rice scheme. The petitioners submitted another representation before the third respondent and the second respondent on 28.7.2003 to direct the authorities to issue commission to fair price shop dealers. However, no action has been taken by the respondents till date. 2. In view of the above, without expressing any opinion on merits, the respondents are directed to dispose of the representations purported to have been made by the petitioners on 02.8.2003 and 17.01.2004 within a period of four weeks from the date of receipt of a copy of this order and communicate the same to the petitioners without any further delay thereafter. 3. With the above direction, the writ petition is disposed of. No costs. __________________ C.V.RAMULU, J. Date: 23rd October 2006. BSB