THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE RAMESH RANGANATHAN WRIT PETITION NO.4835 OF 2010 ORDER: Aggrieved by the action of the respondent-Municipality in issuing a notice for public auction, in the proceedings of February 2010, the petitioner has invoked the jurisdiction of this Court. Facts, in brief, are that, pursuant to the notification issued on 24.03.2009, the petitioner participated in the public auction conducted by the respondent in respect of collection of Cess from the vegetable vendors in the mini-vegetable market, E-Seva Centre, Sri Kalahasthi Municipality, for the year 2009-2010. The petitioner quoted Rs.9,26,000/- and, as he was found to be the highest bidder, he was entrusted with the work of collecting Cess for the period from 01.04.2009 to 31.03.2010. It is his case that he was orally assured that the roads leading to the market would be laid afresh for the convenience of the vehicles loading vegetables; on 02.05.2009, he had represented that, due to lack of proper roads, no vendor was coming forward to do business and they were not paying license fee; the vegetable vendors had also represented that, in view of the damage to the roads in the market, no vehicle was coming forward for unloading the vegetables; they were sustaining huge loss thereby; as the respondent did not provide proper roads and other infrastructure the vendors were only paying 50% of the Cess necessitating the petitioner to submit another representation dated 25.07.2009 to take necessary action to provide better infrastructure; despite several representations, the respondent was proceeding with issuing a notification for conducting auction of leasehold rights for collection of Cess fees; the auction was proposed to be held on 31.03.2010; and the petitioner had requested for extension of his lease for a period of one year by representation dated 24.02.2010 despite which no orders were passed thereupon by the respondent. Sri S.Lakshminarayana Reddy, learned counsel for the petitioner, would contend that failure on the part of the respondent- Municipality to provide necessary infrastructure facilities for proper conduct of business in the market had resulted in vendors paying only 50% of the Cess amount which in turn resulted in the petitioner suffering huge loss and, since the petitioner’s loss of earnings was solely on account of the respondent-Municipality’s inability to provide proper infrastructure, the petitioner was entitled to extension of lease. Learned counsel would submit that the respondent-Municipality should at least be directed to consider the representations submitted by the petitioner and pass orders thereupon in accordance with law. No statutory provision or rule or even a condition of a contract, which enables the petitioner herein to claim extension of lease, as a matter of right, has been brought to the notice of this Court. In the absence of any right vested in the petitioner to claim extension of lease, I see no reason to fault the respondent-Municipality in issuing a notification calling for bids afresh for the next financial year 2010-2011 {i.e. from 01.04.2010 to 31.03.2011}. It is not even the petitioner’s case that the respondent was depriving him of his right to collect Cess for the period from 01.04.2009 to 31.03.2010. As his claim for extension of the lease to collect Cess for the period from 01.04.2010 to 31.03.2011 is not founded of any statutory provision or rule or contractual condition, the petitioner is not entitled to the relief sought for in the Writ Petition. I see no reason to grant the relief sought for merely because the petitioner has submitted a representation to the respondent-Municipality in this regard nor do I consider it appropriate to direct the respondent to consider such a representation. Leaving it open to the petitioner to avail such remedies as are available to him in law to claim compensation for the alleged loss sustained by him, the Writ Petition fails and is, accordingly, dismissed. However, in the circumstances, without costs. _______________________ (RAMESH RANGANATHAN, J) 3rd March 2010 RRB