CWP No. 20040 of 2010 -1- IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH CWP No. 20040 of 2010 Date of decision : 21.02.2011 Gram Panchayat Khipanwali ......Petitioner versus State of Punjab and others ...Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE MEHINDER SINGH SULLAR Present: Mr. Baldev S. Sidhu, Advocate for the petitioner. Mr. Palwinder Singh, Sr. D.A.G., Punjab for respondent Nos. 1 to 3 Nemo for respondent No. 3 **** M ehinder S ingh S ullar, J. (Oral) Learned counsel for the parties are ad idem that the controversy involved in the present writ petition, is squarely covered and deserves to be disposed of in terms of a Division Bench judgment of this Court dated 21.08.2006 rendered in CWP No. 9417 of 2006 titled as Gram Panchayat Satauj Tehsil Sunam Distt. Sangrur and others vs.State of Punjab and others (Annexure P- 5), the operative part of which is as under:- “In view of the discussion made above, it is held that the Scheme (Annexure R/1), cannot over-ride the provisions of the Act. Accordingly, it is ordered that all the grants sanctioned, whatever may be the source and Scheme, be credited to the funds of the Gram Panchayat and be put at its disposal, for utilization. It is further ordered that if any expertise is needed, the same be provided by technical wing of the department of Rural Development and Panchayats, Punjab. The authorities are at liberty, if need be, to ask for prior sanction of the development work in village and approval of estimates etc. However, the officials of the department have got no jurisdiction to execute those works in a village, directly under their own supervision. They may guide the Panches and Sarpanches, if need be. CWP No. 20040 of 2010 -2- In this view of the matter and after hearing the learned counsel for the parties, going through the record, with their valuable assistance and after considering the entire matter deeply, the instant writ petition is hereby accepted and the respondents are directed to credit and put the funds of the indicated-grants for utilisation at the disposal of petitioner-Gram Panchayat, Khipanwali, in terms of judgment dated 21.08.2006 (Annexure P-5) (Mehinder Singh Sullar) Judge February 21, 2011 G.Arora