HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE L. NARASIMHA REDDY WRIT PETITION No.1136 OF 2011 ORDER: Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board (for short ‘the Board’) introduced a scheme ‘Dial a Tanker’. According to this, anyone who is in need of supply of water in bulk quantity can make a phone call to the nearest water tank and the water through a tanker would be supplied, subject to certain conditions. The Board issued a notification in the year 2004, inviting applications from owners of water tankers with certain specifications to register themselves with it, so that they can be utilized under the scheme. The petitioner is the owner of a water tanker with vehicle bearing Nos. AP-28-x-4631 AND AP-10-v-9896. On an application made by him, the water tanker was registered and tanker was being utilized on turn basis. The grievance of the petitioner is that his water tanker is not being utilized even while the other similar water tankers are being used. He claims appropriate relief in this regard. 2. Learned Standing Counsel for the respondents, on instructions, states that the tanker of the petitioner is not being utilized, on account of the fact that his father is employed in the Board. Reliance is placed upon Rule 10 of the A.P. Civil Services Conduct Rules, 1964. 3. Heard the learned counsel for the petitioner and the learned Standing Counsel for the respondents. 4. It is a matter of record that the tanker of the petitioner is registered or enlisted with the Board along with many others in pursuance of a notification issued in the year 2004. Though the contract was initially for a period of one year, the same arrangement is being continued. In case the Board wanted to discontinue the use of the tanker of the petitioner, it ought to have issued a notice. This is so, particularly, when the Board is utilizing all the tankers that were registered along with the tanker of the petitioner. On this short ground, the writ petition is to be allowed, leaving it open to the respondents to take further steps in accordance with law. 5. Hence, the Writ Petition is allowed and the respondents are directed to list and provide work to the tanker of the petitioner on par with the other similar tankers without, however, prejudice to the right to take steps in accordance with law. There shall be no order as to costs. ____________________ L. NARASIMHA REDDY, J January 28, 2011. Note: Issue CC in one week. B/O.KTL