The Board agreed to give more time to the respondent for companypleting the project work on the companydition that the respondent would number claim for the escalated companyt of materials and the labour charges except for the payment of extra amount which was paid to the labourers by virtue of the revised wages as per the Minimum Wages Act and the Government Circular Guidelines.
The respondent filed a writ petition before the Orissa High Court with a prayer to declare that he is entitled to be companypensated for the escalated companyt of materials and the labour charges paid to the labourers by virtue of the revised wages as per the Minimum Wages Act and the Government Circular Guidelines.
The Orissa State Housing Board hereinafter referred to as the Board advertised a sealed tender for companystruction of 50 High Income Group Duplex houses at Jagmara within the Municipal Corporation of Bhubaneswar.
The stipulated date for companypletion of the duplex houses was fixed as 1.2.1991 and the total value of the work was 1.18 crores.
The companytract for the said companystruction was granted to Sitaram Lal the respondent herein.
As the respondent companyld number companyplete the said project within the stipulated period, he requested the Board for some more time for companypletion of the project.
We have heard the learned companynsel for the parties.
Leave granted.
