1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY NAGPUR BENCH, NAGPUR. W.P. No. 3808 of 2008. Shri Vinod Patil Vs. State of Mah and others. Office Notes, Office Memoranda of Coram appearances, Court's orders or directions Court's or Judge's Orders and Registrar's orders. Shr Arun Mahakale Advocate for the petitioner. Shri N. S. Khubalkar, AGP for R-2. Coram : B.H. Marlapalle and A.H. Joshi, JJ. Dated : 25th November, 2008. Heard Mr. Mahakale, the Learned Counsel for the Petitioner who is the former Sarpanch of Village Pardi, Tah. Karanja, District Wardha. As per the order passed by the District Health Officer on 31-3-2008, the Primary Health Center at Karanja has been ordered to be shifted to village Sarwadi along with the entire staff of 11 employees and the said order is under challenge in this petition. The petitioner claims that the residents of village Pardi are being deprived of the medical facility as available to them as of now by shifting the Primary Health Center to Village Sarwadi, and there is no justification for doing the 2 same. It was also submitted that village Sarwadi is located on Nagpur to Amravati Road, whereas village Pardi is located in the interior and, therefore, this is one more ground where the impugned order is not justified. Admittedly, the impugned order has been passed in obedience of the Government Resolution dated 16-3-2008. The Government of Maharashtra decided to establish additional Primary Health Centers as well as Rural Hospitals in different locations of all over the State of Maharashtra. It decided to open 252 Primary Health Centers, conversion of 177 Primary Centers into Rural Hospitals and to open Rural Hospitals at 105 Centers. There is also no dispute that at Karanja, in addition to the Primary Heath Center, a rural hospital also exists. Though as per the G. R. dated 3-7-1996, the Primary Health Center at Karanja was directed to be shifted to village Pardi, the said shifting did not take place, and over the last more than 10 years, the Primary Health Center remained at Karanja along with the Rural Hospital. The residents of Pardi village were thus approaching the Primary Health 3 Center at Karanja for medical treatment. Admittedly, Pardi is located at a distance of 4 Km from Karanja, whereas Sarwadi is located at a distance of 15 km from Karanja. Even after shifting of Primary Health Center from Karanja to village Sarwadi, the Rural Hospital remains at Karanja and therefore, the residents at Pardi will continue to have the same medical facilities as they have as of now and even upgraded facilities at Karanja. We, therefore, do not find any reason to interfere in the decision to shift the Primary Health Center from Karanja to village Sarwadi, and in fact, we are satisfied that the said shifting will serve a better public purpose of catering medical facilities to a large number of citizens. Petition is rejected. JUDGE JUDGE //Muley//.