FARAD CONTINUATION SHEET NO. IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY BENCH AT AURANGABAD WRIT PETITION NO. 1670 OF 2000 Office Notes, Office Memoranda of Coram appearances, Court's Orders Court's or Judge's orders or directions and Registrar's orders. 1 Mr. B.A. Darak, Advocate for the petitioner Mr. B.V. Wagh, AGP for respondent NO.5 Mr. M.N. Nawandar, Advocate for respondent Nos. 2 to 4. CORAM :- P.B. MAJMUDAR & S.S. SHINDE, JJ. DATE :- 25th April, 2011. PER COURT :- 1] This PIL is filed by Beed Zilla Swatantra Sainik Railway Magni Andolan Samiti, Beed through its Chairman. By way of this PIL, the petitioners have prayed that the railway administration may be directed to complete the work of laying down the railway line between Parali-Beed-Ahmednagar in a time bound programme. The grievance of the petitioner is that since the appropriate railway line facility is not there, the people in the Beed area are suffering. 2] Learned counsel for the railway administration states that the Railway Ministry is of the opinion that the work in question is not viable because of financial restraints. It is pointed out by the learned counsel that the rate of return would not be adequate if the railway line is extended in the area in question. FARAD CONTINUATION SHEET NO. IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY BENCH AT AURANGABAD WRIT PETITION NO. 1670 OF 2000 Office Notes, Office Memoranda of Coram appearances, Court's Orders Court's or Judge's orders or directions and Registrar's orders. 2 3] It is required to be noted that this petition is pending since last more than 11 years. In our opinion, it would be just and proper to direct the petitioner association, to make appropriate representation, giving existing data regarding the railway line in question. In such a representation, the petitioner may also point out the difficulties, if any, suffered by the passengers in the nearby area. Since considerable time has lapsed since filing of this petition, the petitioner may give appropriate data in a representation. The representation may be made to the Ministry of Railways as well as to the Railway Board regarding the subject matter of this petition, within a period of 8 weeks from today, giving full particulars of the subject matter. . On receiving such representation, the Railway Ministry as well as the Railway Board may take appropriate decision, in accordance with law and if any further information is sought for, the same may be furnished by the petitioner. The Ministry of Railways/Railway Board may take appropriate decision on the representation of the petitioner, within a period of six months from the date of receipt of the same. . It is made clear that we have not expressed any opinion on merits of the petition and it is for the authorities to consider this aspect as well as the as the aspect about requirement of installing railway line in the area in question. FARAD CONTINUATION SHEET NO. IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY BENCH AT AURANGABAD WRIT PETITION NO. 1670 OF 2000 Office Notes, Office Memoranda of Coram appearances, Court's Orders Court's or Judge's orders or directions and Registrar's orders. 3 . Whatever may be the decision that the Railway Ministry/Railway Board may take, the same be communicated to the petitioner.. Subject to what has been observed hereinabove, the writ petition is disposed of. [S.S. SHINDE, J.] [P.B. MAJMUDAR, J.] grt/-