1 S.B.CIVIL WRIT PETITION NO.3816/2007 Door Sanchar Jal Paan Kendra Sahakari Samiti Ltd., Jodhpur versus Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited, Jodhpur & Ors. Date of Order :: 10th September, 2007 HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE GOVIND MATHUR Mr. Harish Purohit, for the petitioner. Mr. Vijay Bishnoi, for the respondents. .... The petitioner, a society registered under the Societies Registration Act, has preferred this petition for writ seeking a direction to restrain the respondents from inviting bid for the canteen situated at Sardarpura Telephone Exchange. According to the averments contained in petition for writ, management of the canteen aforesaid was with the petitioner society from last more than three decades but the premises, wherein the canteen was situated, was vacated and possession of that was given to the respondents to get it renovated with an understanding that after renovation the same shall be handed over to the petitioner society. According to the petitioner the respondents are now proceeding to give contract of the canteen by inviting fresh tenders. 2 A reply to the writ petition has been filed on behalf of the respondents stating therein that the petitioner association is having no vested right for managing the canteen and according to the policy introduced by Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd. all new canteens are to be operated on contract basis only. The contention of counsel for the petitioner is that the petitioner society which is as a matter of fact is an association of the employees was running canteen from last number of years with an object to provide good food stuff without earning any profit and by giving canteen on contract basis to some other party, the employees who are consumers of the canteen shall have to face higher rates of food stuffs and other edibles. Heard. At the first instance the petitioner is having no vested right to manage canteen. The society may had been managing the canteen from last many years but that was only an administrative arrangement. A policy decision taken by the respondents to provide canteen facility on contract basis does not suffer from any such arbitrariness or unfairness that may warrant interference of this Court. Thus, no illegality is there in inviting tenders by the 3 competent persons to run canteen at the premises concerned. The writ petition, therefore, is dismissed. However, it is expected from the respondents that they will ensure availability of good food stuffs with reasonable rates at the canteen run by the contractor. ( GOVIND MATHUR ),J. Kkm/ps.