IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) MONDAY, THE SEVENTEENTH DAY OF NOVEMBER TWO THOUSAND AND EIGHT PRESENT THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE L.NARASIMHA REDDY WRIT PETITION NO : 24426 of 2007 Between: Displaced Ryoths Association (Regd.No.230/2000) Telugu Ganga project (SPVB Reservoir) B.Mattam,Kadapa District, rep.by its president Sri K.Venkata Ramana, S/o.K.Venkaiah, aged 42 years R/o.Chennampally, Badvel, Mandal, Kadapa District ..... PETITIONER AND 1 The Secretary to Government , Irrigation & Command Area Development, AP Secretariat,Hyderabad 2 The Superintending Engineer, Panchayat Raj Department Kadapa 3 The superintending Engineer, Panchayat Raj Department R.W.S.circle, Kadapa 4 The Superintending Engineer, (Operations) APSPDCL Y.M.Poth, Kadapa 5 The Executive Engineer, Panchayat Raj Department Kadapa 6 The Executive Engineer, Panchayat Raj Department R.W.S.Divison, Kadapa 7 The Executive Engineer, Panchayat Raj Division Rajampet, Kadapa 8 The Executive Engineer, R.W.S.Division Rajampet,Kadapa .....RESPONDENTS Petition under Article 226 of the constitution of India praying that in the circumstances stated in the Aﬃdavit ﬁled herein the High Court will be pleased to issue a writ of mandamus or any other appropriate writ order or direction declaring the action of the respondents in entrusting the civil works pertaining to R.R.Centres to local contractors on nomination basis without considering the claims of the Elected Habitation Committees in terms of orders of the Hon`ble High Court in Review WPMP.No.238/2000 dated 27.1.2003 and the orders of and the orders of the Hon`ble High Court in WP.No.16929 of 2007 dated 26.10.2007 as totally illegal, without jurisdiction and consequently direct the respondents to consider the claims of the petitioner for entrustment of the civil works in terms of the above orders of the Hon`ble High Court. Counsel for the Petitioner:MR.S.LAKSHMA REDDY Counsel for the Respondents: GP FOR PANCHAYAT RAJ & RURAL DEV. The Court made the following : ORDER: The petitioner is an association of Displaced Ryots in Telugu Ganga Project. The displaced persons are to be rehabilitated, at various centers. A policy appears to have been evolved to entrust the civil works to the Rehabilitation Committees, instead of local contractors. The grievance of the petitioner is that the respondents are proceeding with the works by nominating the local contractors, without inviting tenders and without entrusting the same to the Rehabilitation Committees. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner, learned Government Pleader for Irrigation and Government Pleader for Panchayat Raj. The writ petition was listed ‘for Admission’ way back on 19.11.2007. It was adjourned to enable the learned Government Pleader to obtain instructions. No interim orders were passed. By any standard, works that have been entrusted to the local contractors may have been completed. At any rate, the writ petition is not with reference to any specific work. Hence, the Writ Petition is disposed of, directing that it shall be open to the petitioner to come before this Court, as and when any speciﬁc work is entrusted to any contractor, in violation of the judgment rendered by this Court, or the policy enunciated by the Government. There shall be no order as to costs. ______________________ Dt.17.11.2008 L.NARASIMHA REDDY, J GJ