HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE R. SUBHASH REDDY WRIT PETITION No.6596 of 2011 Date: 15.03.2011 Between : M/s.S.K.Enterprises, Secunderabad, rep. by its Partner. ….Petitioner And The Registrar, English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad. ….Respondent HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE R. SUBHASH REDDY WRIT PETITION No.6596 of 2011 ORDER : This writ petition is filed, seeking directions by way of Mandamus, declaring the action of respondent in issuing the tender notification, dated 10.03.2011, with regard to supply of manpower to the respondent- University, by modifying the earlier criteria notified on 17.06.2010, as illegal and arbitrary. Clauses 1 and 2 of the eligibility criteria notified in the impugned tender notice issued by the respondent- University, read as under : “1. Only registered, bonafied and reputed firms need to apply. The firm should have requisite competence/ capacity to handle jobs relating to Cleanliness and General Maintenance of premises. 2 . The firm should have at least two years experience in similar activities and should have undertaken similar works for providing 100 or more workers under each contract awarded to them”. Though it is contended by the learned counsel for petitioner that wide publicity is not given with regard to the impugned notice, it is to be noticed that the petitioner is aware of the said notification and it is also known to the petitioner that the last date for submission of tenders is today, and in that view of the matter, this Court is of the view that the petitioner has not suffered any prejudice. Further, it is contended that clauses 1 and 2 referred above, are notified only to accommodate certain persons. The said allegation is vague, and from a reading of the eligibility criteria mentioned in the impugned notification, it is clear that to execute the works, respondent-University has called for bids from reputed Firms with an experience of minimum two years in executing similar works. Such clauses are notified in the eligibility criteria as they are having nexus with the proposed works to be executed. Merely because the eligibility criteria notified in the impugned notification is not similar to that of the earlier notification, the same is no ground to invalidate the present notification. It is for the employer to fix the eligibility criteria, and unless it is established that such criteria is either arbitrary or illegal, this Court cannot interfere with the same. For the aforesaid reasons, the writ petition is devoid of merit and it is accordingly dismissed. No costs. _________________________ R.SUBHASH REDDY, J 15th March 2011 ajr