IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD WEDNESDAY, THE 4th DAY OF JULY, TWO THOUSAND AND TEN PRESENT HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE A.GOPAL REDDY AND HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE K.C.BHANU WRIT PETITION Nos.1706 AND 5006 OF 2010 Between: Y.V.B.Rajendra Prasad and another … Petitioners And The State of Andhra Pradesh, rep. By its Principal Secretary and others … Respondents This Court made the following: HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE A.GOPAL REDDY AND HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE K.C.BHANU WRIT PETITION Nos.1706 AND 5006 of 2010 COMMON ORDER: - (Per Hon’ble Sri Justice A.Gopal Reddy) These two writ petitions are filed in the form of Public Interest Litigation to declare Clause 3(a) of the G.O.Ms.No.41, Panchayat Raj & Rural Development (RD-II) Department, dated 29.01.2010, insofar as empowering the District Collectors to identify and sanction the works to be executed under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005 is violative of Section 16 of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005; and to declare the G.O.Ms.No.41 issued by Panchayat Raj and Rural Development (RD-II) Department, dated 29.01.2010 and consequential Memos No.3794/Progs.III(1)/2010-I, dated 17.02.2010 and dated 20.02.2010, issued by the 1st respondent as illegal and violative of Section 13 of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005. Pending the writ petitions, the Government in G.O.Rt.No.158, dated 03.05.2010, amended para 3(a) of G.O.Ms.No.41, in specifying that the Gram Panchayats/ Mandal Praja Parishad / Zilla Praja Parishad concerned shall identify and execute the works under the Rural Connectivity Project under MGNREGS and the District Collectors shall issue only administrative sanctions. Learned Special Government Pleader, representing the learned Advocate General also represented that all consequential memos issued pursuant to the impugned G.O.Ms.No.41, dated 29.01.2010 will be withdrawn, in view of the amendment carried out. The said submission is placed on record. In view of the amendment carried out to G.O.Ms.No.41, no cause survives in the present writ petitions and the same have become infructuous. Accordingly, the Writ Petitions are dismissed as infructuous. No costs. ________________ A.GOPAL REDDY, J ____________ K.C.BHANU, J 4th August 2010 lmv