THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE R.SUBHASH REDDY WRIT PETITION No.10590 of 2008 ORDER: In the Writ Petition, petitioner has questioned notification, dated 01.02.2008 issued in Ref/H/156/2008 by the second respondent – Revenue Divisional Officer, Amalapuram. Petitioner is a dealer of fair price shop No.52 of Vannechintalapudi Village, Amalapuram Mandal, East Godavari District. There were proposals to bifurcate the said shop by creating one more shop and the first respondent - District Collector, East Godavari, Kakinada, approved the same. To fill up the vacancy of newly created shop, the second respondent issued the impugned notification. Questioning the same, this Writ Petition is filed. It is the case of the petitioner that there are no grounds to bifurcate the fair price shop in question and he was not given any opportunity before such bifurcation. It is to be noticed that the bifurcation proceedings are not under challenge in the present Writ Petition. For bifurcation of the fair price shop, the proposals were sent by the second respondent and were approved by the first respondent. As per the policy notified indicating the convenience of the cardholders, when a new fair price shop is created, by dividing the cards, which are attached to the earlier shop, it cannot be said that there are no valid grounds to bifurcate the fair price shop. In any event, without questioning bifurcation proceedings, it is not open for the petitioner to raise such issue in the present Writ Petition by merely questioning the impugned notification issued by the second respondent to fill up the vacancy. Although it is stated by the learned counsel for the petitioner that the petitioner was not given any opportunity before bifurcation, as it is only an action, which was taken pursuant to the policy of the Government keeping in mind the convenience of the cardholders, the petitioner is not entitled to any notice at the stage of bifurcation. In any event, as the bifurcation proceedings are not under challenge, I do not find any merit in this Writ Petition for grant of relief as prayed for to invalidate the impugned notification issued by the second respondent to fill up the newly created vacancy in respect of fair price shop No.52A. For the aforesaid reasons, as the newly created vacancy is not filled up in view of the fact that this Court passed orders of status quo on 29.12.2008, it is open for the respondents to proceed with the action from the stage where it was stopped or to notify the vacancy afresh for filling up the same. Subject to the above observation, the Writ Petition is disposed of. No order as to costs. _______________________ R.SUBHASH REDDY, J 30th AUGUST, 2011. kvni