IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM PRESENT : THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE P.N.RAVINDRAN THURSDAY, THE 6TH JANUARY 2011 / 16TH POUSHA 1932 WP(C).No. 38326 of 2010(M) -------------------------- PETITIONER(S): --------------- V.MITHRADAS, S/O.VELAYUDHAN, ATTUKAL TRADERS, PATTOOR JUNCTION, TRIVANDRUM-35, RESIDING AT KOCHUMMINI HOUSE, OOLANKUZHY, ANAYARA P.O., THIRUVANANTHAPURAM DISTRICT. BY ADV. SRI.D.PEETHAMBARAN SRI.PRASAD GANDHI SRI.C.K.JAYAKUMAR RESPONDENT(S): --------------- 1. THE REGIONAL TRANSPORT AUTHORITY, EAST FORT, TRIVANDRUM, PIN-695 023, REPRESENTED BY ITS CHAIRMAN. 2. THE SECRETARY, REGIONAL TRANSPORT AUTHORITY, EAST FORT, TRIVANDRUM, PIN-695 023. BY GOVERNMENT PLEADER SRI.BASANT BALAJI THIS WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) HAVING COME UP FOR ADMISSION ON 06/01/2011, THE COURT ON THE SAME DAY DELIVERED THE FOLLOWING: P.N.RAVINDRAN, J. ----------------------------------------- W.P(C).No.38326 of 2010 ----------------------------------------- Dated this the 6th day of January, 2011 JUDGMENT The petitioner is a stage carriage operator. He had applied for a regular permit to operate a stage carriage on the city route Konchiravila-Pongumoodu. It is stated that though the said application was presented on 27.7.2000 and thereafter temporary permits are being issued to the petitioner to operate a stage carriage on the said route, till date orders have not been passed on his application for regular permit. In this writ petition the petitioner seeks a direction to the respondents to pass orders on Ext.P4 representation filed by him wherein he has requested for expeditious orders on his application for regular permit within a time limit to be fixed by this Court. 2. Sri.Basant Balaji, learned Government Pleader appearing for the respondents, submits on instructions that the application for regular permit submitted by the petitioner was considered by the Regional Transport Authority at its meeting held on 22.12.2010 and that the Regional Transport Authority is yet to W.P(C).No.38326 of 2010 -:2:- take a decision in the matter. In the light of the fact that the petitioner's application for regular permit is pending for more than one decade I am of the opinion that the Regional Transport Authority should take an expeditious decision thereon. I accordingly dispose of the writ petition with a direction to the first respondent to pass orders pursuant to the meeting held on 22.12.2010 on the petitioner's application dated 27.7.2000 for grant of regular permit to operate a stage carriage on the route Konchiravila-Pongumoodu expeditiously and in any event within one month from the date on which the petitioner produces a certified copy of this judgment before the second respondent. P.N.RAVINDRAN, Judge. ahg. P.N.RAVINDRAN, J. --------------------------- W.P(C).No.38326 of 2010 ---------------------------- JUDGMENT 6th January, 2011