IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.11326 of 2007 ASHOK KUMAR son of Late Kameshwsr Kumar, R/O village Jafra Bhagwanpur, P.O.Tiskhora,P.S.Naubatpur, Distt-Patna. Petitioner. Versus 1. THE STATE OF BIHAR through the Agriculture Production Commissioner, Govt. of Bihar, Patna 2. The Agriculture Production commissioner, Govt. of Bihar, Patna 3. The Deputy Secretary- cum- Horticulture Director, Govt. of Bihar, Patna 4. Sri Shankar Jha, Director, Bihar Agriculture Management and Extension Training Institute, Jagdeo Path, Patna 5. Uday Narain Rai S/o Keshri Rai, Village Kathrain, P.S.Manikpur, Dist- Buxar. 6. Sudhanshu singh son of Maheshwari Singh, Village Kanchanpur, P.s.Bihta, Distt-Patna 7. Manik Kumar of village & P.s. Dhandaha, Distt- Purnia 8. Shyam Kishore Thakur, Distt-Vaishali 9. Ajay Kumar S/o Late Devendra Prasad Singh, village and P.O.Nagwan, P.s.Naubatpur, Distt-Patna 10. Anil Kumar Singh, S/o Yogendra Singh, village and P.O. Salari, P.s.Barh, Distt-Patna 11. Kaushal Kumar son of Rajendra Sharma of village and P.O. Nadawna, P.S.Masahi, Distt-Patna 12. Lalit Choudahry son of Sheo Shankar Choudhary, village Kairiya, P.s.Karha, Distt-Katihar 13. Manoj Yadav son of Rameshwar Yadav, village Kumaripur, P.s.Manihari,Distt-Katihar, 14. Shashi Kumar of Vidyarthi Bhawan,Janakpur,P.s.Manpur, Distt-Gaya 15. Baban Singh of village Chaprada, P.S.Town P.s.Gaya Distt-Gaya, 16. Narmadeshwar Shukla of village Sukalpura, Distt- Bhojpur 17. Dhananjay Sharma of village and P.O.Kab, P.s.Dulhin Bazar, Dist-Patna 18. Birendra Prasad Singh son of late Ramchandra Singh, village and P.O.Korhar, P.S.Bihta,Distt-Patna 19. Jitendra Prasad Arya son of Harish Chandra of village Chak, Bihari, P.s. Fatuha, Distt-Patna 20. Raja Ram Singh of village Baikathpur,,P.S.Khusrupur, Distt-Patna 21. Satyendra Kumar singh of village Rupaspur Tinpai, P.s.Athamalgola Distt-Patna 22. Balmiki Sharma son of late suryadeo Singh, village Siyarampur, P.s. Paliganj, Distt-Patna 2 23. Shri Kant Bhushan Azad son of late Gajendra Sharma, village and P.O. Kaswan, P.s. Rafiganj Distt- Jehanabad. —Respondents. ------------ 14. 30.6.2009. Heard Mr. Madan Prasad Singh, learned counsel appearing on behalf of the petitioner, Mr. Harendra Prasad Singh, learned Government Advocate No.VI and Mr. Nirankar for respondent no.13. It is in the nature of public interest litigation pointing out the irregularity in selection of agriculturists for the honour of Kisan Shree, Kisan Bhushan, and Kisan Ratna awards. The Government of Bihar prepared a scheme for encouraging persons engaged in agriculture and connected operations to promote agriculture and ancillary activities. It issued the guidelines by which the honour of Kisan Shree was to be given a cash award of Rs.1 lakh at the block level, honour of Kisan Bhushan was to be given a cash award of Rs.2 lakh at the district level, and the honour of Kisan Ratna was to be given a cash award of Rs.5 lakh at the State level. It was implemented during the financial year 2006-2007 throughout State of Bihar and various persons were selected for the same leading to the present writ petition, wherein it is, inter alia, alleged that no eligible person has been selected for the aforesaid award. It is further alleged that the honour has been anogated by the members of the Selection Committee constituted under 3 the guidelines (Annexure-1), known as Bihar Agriculture Technology Management Agency (ATMA Governing Body). Respondent no.1 has placed on record the counter affidavit annexing thereto copy of the inquiry report submitted by the Divisional commissioner, Purnea, with respect to his Division. It appears on perusal of the statement made in the counter affidavit that most of the persons selected in the Commissionery of Purnea were members of the ATMA creating an impression in our minds that the scheme is not serving its objectives, and is perhaps going on wrong lines. We must at this stage note the submission advanced by learned counsel for the petitioner that, cautioned by the findings of the inquiry report,the respondent authorities have not implemented the scheme after 2006-2007. We must also note his submission that the scheme is really to create vote bank. He also submits that the question whether or not the recipients were eligible persons in terms of the scheme to receive the honour does not seem to have been examined in the inquiry report. We do not express our view on the aspects of the matter. In view of the submission at the Bar that the scheme has not been implemented for the period 2006-07, we do not wish to pursue this matter any further. We leave it to the care and caution of the State Government. It goes 4 without saying that it will be open to the State Government to examine the genuineness of the recipients of the awards on whom honours have been conferred. Writ petition is accordingly disposed off. ahk (S.K.Katriar, J.) (Jyoti Saran)