HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE NOUSHAD ALI WRIT PETITION No.31132 of 2011 Date: November 25, 2011 Between: 1. Vanjirapu Sunder Rao & another … Petitioners and 1. Government of Andhra Pradesh, rep. by its Principal Secretary, Panchayat Raj & Rural Development (RDII) Department, Hyderabad & 5 others. … Respondents * * * HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE NOUSHAD ALI WRIT PETITION No.31132 of 2011 O R D E R: Heard Sri E. Peddanna, learned counsel for the petitioners, learned Assistant Government Pleader for Panchayat Raj & Rural Development appearing for respondents 1 to 5 and Sri G. Elisha, learned counsel for respondent 6 and with the consent of all the counsel the writ petition is being disposed of at the stage of admission. 2. The petitioners claim to be the permanent residents of Buduruwada Gram Panchayat, Parvathipuram Mandal, Vizianagaram District. The grievance of the petitioners is that even though Buduruwada is the headquarters of the panchayat and is centrally located and convenient for locating oﬃce of the Gram Panchayat, the 6th respondent is undertaking construction in a diﬀerent place viz., D.K.Patnam. The petitioners state that D.K. Patnam is not suitable and convenient to the public and state that there are 12 villages in and around the Buduruwada Panchayat and that D.K. Patnam is not suitable and convenient to the public. The petitioners therefore submitted a representation dated 14.3.2011 to the District Collector (Panchayat Wing), Vizianagaram District, requesting to examine the matter for appropriate decision in the interest of the public. The petitioners seek to rely on the proceedings dated 19.11.2010 of the District Collector, which has sanctioned the Gram Panchayat building at Buduruwada village. The petitioners therefore state that it is imperative and worthwhile that the second respondent to take appropriate decision before permitting the construction of the Gram Panchayat building at D.K. Patnam. Learned counsel for the petitioners therefore submits that the second respondent be directed to consider their representation and take an appropriate decision in the matter within a time frame. Learned counsel for the respondents have no objection for issuing such a direction. 3. In the aforesaid circumstances, this writ petition is disposed of directing the second respondent-District Collector (Panchayat Wing), Vizianagaram District, to consider the representation dated 14.3.2011 submitted by the petitioners and take appropriate decision in the matter as expeditiously as possible, preferably, within a period of six weeks from the date of receipt of a copy of this order. No costs. 4. In view of the orders passed in the writ petition, W.P.M.P. No.38632 of 2011 is dismissed as unnecessary. __________________ NOUSHAD ALI, J. Date: November 25, 2011. Note: Issue C.C. by 28.11.2011. //B.O.// BSB