WP(C) 1185/2011 BEFORE HON’BLE MRS. JUSTICE ANIMA HAZARIKA Heard Ms.B.Bhuyan, learned counsel appearing for the petitioners. Also h eard Mr.B.J.Talukdar learned State Counsel appearing for the respondent No.1,Mr. S.Bora learned Standing Counsel, Guwahati Municipal Corporation appearing for re spondent Nos.2,9 and 10 and Mr.U.Rajbongshi learned Standing Counsel, PWD appea ring for respondent Nos 3 to 8. Considering the grievance raised in the writ petition and as agreed to b y the learned counsel appearing for the parties, this writ petition is being dis posed of at the motion stage itself. The petitioners’ case in brief is that pursuant to the tender dated 18.4 .05 of the petitioner No.1 Company, the respondent No.6 vide letter dated 21.06. 05 issued preliminary work order for work of display of Advertising Bill-Boards to be installed on both sides of the poles of central verge street light at Guwa hati for advertising on the poles. The period of work was for two years from the date of signing tender agreement and the tender value was Rs.2,50,560.00(rupees two lacs fifty thousand five hundred sixty) only. Thereafter the petitioner No. 1 company obtained permission from Guwahati Municipal Corporation and signed th e agreement with Respondent No.6 and the formal work order was issued to the pet itioner No.1 company vide letter dated 1.9.05. The petitioner No.1 carried out t he aforesaid work to the satisfaction of all concerned and as such after the exp iry of the period of the aforesaid work order, the respondent No.6 has further e xtended the period for the aforesaid work vide letter dated 4.9.07 for another t wo years. During the subsistence of the aforesaid contract between the petitione r No.1 company and the respondent no.6, on 21.5.08 one of the hoarding erected b y the petitioner company located at G.S.Road, Khanapara was removed without ser ving any notice. Further on 31.5.08, some persons identifying themselves to be e mployees of the respondent No.10 attempted to remove one bill board (kiosk) from a pole located at G.S.Road. It has also been informed that all the bill boards and the hoardings erected by the petitioner No.1 company would be removed by the Respondent No.10. Apprehending removal of the hoardings and the billboards allo tted to the petitioner No.1 Company, the petitioner No.1 approached this Court b y filing a writ petition being W.P.(C) 2212/08. This Court vide order dated 3.6 .08 passed an interim order directing the respondents not to remove the advertis ing bill boards erected by the petitioner. The aforesaid writ petition is still pending before this Court. The further case of the petitioner is that respondent No.6 vide order dated 8.11.10 extended the period of the earlier work order of the petitioner No.1 for display of advertising Bill Boards in Guwahati City for another three years. The contract was for 84 numbers of poles in different roads within Guwahati city. Thereafter vide communication dated 29.11.10 the responde nt No.6 informed the petitioner No.1 that in partial modification to the office order dated 8.11.10 the poles allotted to the petitioner No.1 company on R.G.Bar ua Road and G.N.B.Road(each 10 numbers i.e. 20 numbers of poles) are deleted fro m the earlier order and in addition to this all the poles on G.S.Road were al lotted to the petitioner Company with immediate effect. Pursuant to the extended work orders as allotted to the petitioner compa ny, the Manager of the petitioner Company vide representation dated 10.12.10 and 28.12.10 requested the Commissioner, Guwahati Municipal Corporation( Respondent No.10) to inform the petitioners the total amount of taxes required to be pai d for the bill boards. But till date the representations dated 10.12.10 and 28.1 2.10 have not been disposed of. Thus finding no other alternative, the instant w rit petition has been filed with a limited prayer for a direction to respondent No.10 to dispose of the aforesaid representation within a time frame, taking int o consideration the fact that similarly situated persons who have been allotte d the same work are carrying out their work without any hindrance. Mr.Bora learned Standing Counsel, GMC has raised no objection to the pra yer so made on behalf of the petitioner Company. In view of the limited prayer of the petitioners and also considering th e grievance raised in the instant proceeding, this writ petition is disposed of with a direction to respondent No.10 i.e. Commissioner, Guwahati Municipal Corpo ration, to dispose of the representations dated 10.12.10 and 28.12.10 submitted by the petitioners by a speaking order, in accordance with law, within a period of three weeks from the date of receipt of a certified copy of this order to be submitted by the petitioners. Alongwith the certified copy, the petitioners sha ll also submit a copy of the writ petition with the annexures appended thereto before the respondent No.10 for doing the needful. It is needless to say that order so passed in the representation be comm unicated to the petitioners forthwith. With the aforesaid directions, the writ petition is disposed of. No cost .