IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) WEDNESDAY, THE SEVENTH DAY OF JULY TWO THOUSAND AND FOUR PRESENT THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE A.GOPAL REDDY WRIT PETITION NO : 15309 of 1999 Between: Nizamabad District Contractors Association, Near Railway Bridge,Kanteswar Road, Nizamabad, Rep. By its Vice-President-MalikMazharullah Ahmed, S/o.Faiz Mahmood, aged 44 years,Class-II Contractor, R/o.Near Govt.Junior College,Khila, Nizamabad. ..... PETITIONER AND 1. The Superintendenting Engineer, P.R.Circle, Medak District. 2. The Engineer-in-chief, Panchayat Raj, Erramanzil,Hyderabad. .....RESPONDENTS Petition under Article 226 of the Constitution of India praying that in the circumstances stated in the affidavit filed herein the High Court may be pleased to issue an appropriate writ, order or direction, more particularly one in the nature of Writ of Mandamus, to declare the action of the first respondent in issuing the impugned Tender Notice No.AE/ Tender/NZB/12/99-2000 dated 10.7.1999 in grouping all the civil works on various roads in a sub-division into one work is arbitrary and illegal and consequently direct the respondentNo.1 to call tenders separately for the works as detailed in the tender notification dt.10.07.1999. For the Petitioner:MR.S.SATYAM REDDY, Advocate. For the Respondents:Govt. Pleader for Panchayat Raj. The Court made the following : ORDER Pursuant to the judgment of this court dt. 10-3-98 in WP No.12975/96 and batch, reported in SRI JANAKIRAMA VADDARA LABOUR CONTRACT CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETY V. EXECUTIVE ENGINEER (1998(3) ALT 808 DB), the Government issued G.O.Ms.No.52 Transport, Roads & Buildings (B.I-1) dt. 18-3-2000 granting certain concessions to the Labour Contract Co-operative Societies of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes with regard to deposit of EMD amount at the time of filing tenders. In view of the same, no cause survives for adjudication. The writ petition is accordingly dismissed. No costs. ________________ 07-07-2004 cs/kmr To 1.The Superintending Engineer, P.R. Circle, Medak District.. 2.The Engineer-in-chief, Panchayat Raj, Erramanzil, Hyderabad. 3. CCs to the Government Pleader for Panchayat Raj, High Court Buildings, Hyderabad (O.U.T.). 4.2 CD copies.