THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY WRIT PETITION No.8837 of 2011 Dated 01st April, 2011 Between: Pampana Ramudu and another …Petitioners And The District Collector, West Godavari District, Eluru and others …Respondents Counsel for the petitioners: Sri K.R.Sashidharan Nair For Sri Sai Gangadhar Chamarthy Counsel for Respondent Nos.1 & 2: AGP for Panchayat Raj The Court made the following: ORDER: This writ petition is filed for a mandamus to declare the inaction of the respondents in considering the objections raised by the petitioners against implementing the National Rural Protected Drinking Water Scheme as illegal and arbitrary. The petitioners claim to be the residents of Kakileru Village, Iragavaram Mandal, West Godavari District. They felt aggrieved by the action of the respondents in seeking to implement National Rural Protected Drinking Water Scheme in the lakes situated in the village. The averments contained in the affidavit filed in support of the writ petition would show that under the said scheme, a project with an estimated cost of Rs.9 crores was conceived for supply of drinking water for three villages. According to the petitioners, in the course of implementation of the scheme, the respondents are likely to demolish a temple called Vanumulamma temple and also remove some of the coconut trees. The petitioners filed an unsigned copy of a purported representation given to the Mandal Revenue Officer, Iragavaram. A copy of the purported acknowledgment has also been filed. In their affidavit, the petitioners have not explained their locus to maintain this writ petition. They have neither pleaded that their personal interests are affected or likely to be affected or that they are espousing the cause of the public. While the names of the persons, who are stated to have made the representation, have not been disclosed in the said representation, in the purported receipt, it is shown that one Lanka Lakshmi and others have submitted the same. The names of the petitioners do not find a place either in the representation or in the receipt. In my opinion, the petitioners failed to establish their locus standi to maintain this writ petition. This writ petition is obviously meant for stalling an important water scheme intended to supply drinking water to as many as three villages. For the above-mentioned reasons, the writ petition is dismissed. As a sequel to dismissal of the writ petition, W.P.M.P.No.10975 of 2011 filed by the petitioners for interim relief is disposed of as infructuous. C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY, J 01st April, 2011 VGB