IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) FRIDAY, THE THIRTEENTH DAY OF FEBRUARY TWO THOUSAND AND NINE PRESENT THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE C.V.RAMULU WRIT PETITION No.2800 of 2009 Between: Md. Azeez S/o. Khasim Saheb R/o. Bank Colony, Wyra (V), Khammam District. ..... PETITIONER AND 1 The Secretary, A.P. Social Welfare Residential Educational Institution Society (APSWREIS), Hyderabad. 2 The Superintending Engineer, Social Welfare Department, Hyderabad. 3 The Executive Engineer, Social Welfare Department, Khammam. .....RESPONDENTS Petition under Article 226 of the Constitution of India praying that in the circumstances stated in the Affidavit filed herein the High Court may be pleased to issue a writ, order or direction more particularly one in the nature of Writ of Mandamus declaring the action of the 1st respondent in not releasing the amounts as recommended by the 2nd and 3rd respondents since long time though the work entrusted to the petitioner completed long back, as highly arbitrary, illegal, unjust on the part of the 1st respondent and consequently direct the 1st respondent to pay the amounts due to the petitioner as recommended by the 2nd and 3rd respondents, with reasonable interest. Counsel for the Petitioner: MR.P.VENKATA RAO Counsel for the Respondents: GP FOR SOCIAL WELFARE MR. K. DURGA PRASAD The Court made the following: THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE C.V. RAMULU WRIT PETITION No.2800 OF 2009 ORDER: Heard both sides. According to the petitioner, the President of Village Development Committee of Wyra Village, Khammam District, he was allotted the work of construction of Teaching Staff Quarters and Class-IV Quarters at S.W.R.S. Complex, Wyra, Khammam District, and the same was completed. It is his case that, initially, the estimated cost of the works was around Rs.46,00,000/, but however, subsequently, due to increase in the expenditure, the 2nd respondent- Superintending Engineer, Social Welfare, Hyderabad, addressed a letter to the 1st respondent- Secretary, A.P. Social Welfare Residential Educational Institutions Society, Hyderabad, on 03.03.2003, seeking to accord revised administrative sanction for the expenditure incurred. Thereafter, the 3rd respondent- Executive Engineer, Social Welfare, Khammam, has also addressed a letter to the 1st respondent requesting to accord revised administrative sanction and release the balance amount of Rs.3,69,902/- i.e. the difference between initially estimated cost and revised cost. It is the grievance of the petitioner that since no action has been taken on the said letters, he made a representation to the 1st respondent on 09.08.2006 requesting to release the funds, but the same is also not considered and, thereafter, the 3rd respondent addressed another letter on 18.08.2007 to the 1st respondent, which is also not yet considered. Hence, this writ petition. Perused the copies of the letter dated 03.03.2003 addressed by the 2nd respondent and the letters dated 18.08.2005 and 18.08.2007 addressed by the 3rd respondent as also the representation dated 09.08.2006 submitted by the petitioner, to the 1st respondent, requesting to accord revised administrative sanction and to release an amount of Rs.3,69,902/-, and according to the petitioner all this correspondence has not been acted upon. Under those circumstances, the 1st respondent is directed to consider the representation purported to have been submitted by the petitioner on 09.08.2006, in the light of the recommendations of the 2nd and 3rd respondents in their letters dated 03.03.2003, 18.08.2005 and 18.08.2007 respectively, and pass appropriate orders as per law, within a period of eight weeks from the date of receipt of a copy of this order, and communicate the same to the petitioner. With the above directions, the writ petition is disposed of. No order as to costs. _________________ JUSTICE C.V. RAMULU 13th February, 2009. IBL