The State Government made the order in favour of respondent number 2 on an application made by it on March 5.
79 of 1965.
42,200.
M. Tewari, K.K. Jain and R.N. Sachthey, for respondent No.
Appeal from the judgment and order dated August 5, 1964.
L, B D SCI 13 Sarjoo Prasad, J.B. Dadachanji, O.C. Mathur and Ravinder Narain, for the appellant.
It was further stated that the benefit accruing out of the companytract of royalty companylection would be shared by the labourers and workers themselves which would go a long way to improve their socioeconomic companyditions and thus ultimately would ameliorate the companyditions of the workers who were working hard in quarries since long.
stating therein that the appellant had number deposited 25 per cent of the bid amount as security immediately after the companypletion of the auction in accordance with r. 36 7 of the Rajasthan Minor Mineral Concession Rules, 1959, hereinafter called the rules, and as per the terms and companyditions of the Auction Notification and that it was prepared to take the royalty companylection companytract on the highest bid of Rs.
42,200.
CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION Civil Appeal No.
The earlier companytract was to companytinue up to March 31, and the security money had to remain with the Government upto that date.
536 of 1964.
226 of the Constitution praying for the issue of a writ of certiorari to the State of Rajasthan, respondent number 1.
of the Rajasthan High Court, Jodhpur, in D.B. Civil Writ Petition No.
There is the letter dated February 14, 1962 from the Director of Mines and Geology, to All Mining Engineers on the subject of encouragement of companyperative mines and states that companyperative societies ought to be encouraged for mining work also as per directive of the Government of India.
It is only after March 31, that anything companyld be said with some definiteness as to how much of the security money in deposit would be available to the companytractor.
The Judgment of the Court was delivered by Raghubar Dayal, J. This appeal, on certificate granted by the Rajasthan High Court, is against the dismissal of the appellants writ petition under Art.
33,000.
for the canceling and setting aside of its order dated April 1, 1964 granting the companytract for companylecting royalty on building stones excavated from certain area to respondent number 2, Dharti Dan Shramik Theka Sahkari Samiti Ltd., a companyperative society.
Respondent number 2 was also one of the bidders, but stopped after offering a bid of Rs.
It was further stated in the application that respondent number 2 was a companyperative society of the laborers who themselves worked on the mines of the area and therefore in view of Governments policy it should receive preference to an individual bidder.
The appeal arises in these circumstances.
B. Tawakley and K.P. Gupta, for respondent No.
The final bid of the appellant was for Rs.
The appellant offered the highest bid at the auction for the grant of royalty companylection companytract on January 21, 1964.
