CWP No.16116 of 2011 (O&M) Dharambir V/s Director Town and Country Planning, Haryana Present: Mr.N.S.Bhardwaj, Advocate for the petitioner. ***** Prayer in this petition is to issue a writ in the nature of mandamus, directing respondent, to decide the petitioner's application for change of land use, filed under the Punjab Scheduled Roads and Controlled Areas (Restriction of Unregulated Development)Act, 1963. Counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner filed an application for change of land use on 25.11.2008. The application was forwarded to the Senior Town and Country Planner, Gurgaon, who thereafter forwarded it to the Director, Urban Development, Haryana, Chandigarh. The petitioner has not received any information about the fate of his application. It is prayed that as respondent is statutorily obliged to decide the application, one way or the other, a direction may be issued to respondent to decide the application (Annexure P-1) forthwith. I have heard counsel for the petitioner and in view of the statutory duty cast upon respondent to decide the petitioner's application for change of land use, the present petition is disposed of with a direction to respondent to consider and decide the petitioner's application for change of land use within three months from receipt of a certified copy of this order, by passing a speaking order. This order shall not be construed to be an expression of opinion on the rights of the petitioner or the respondent. 30.08.2011 [ RAJIVE BHALLA ] shamsher JUDGE