Hyderabad Sahakar Labour Contract v. Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation

HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE A.RAJASHEKER REDDY WRIT PETITION No.22144 OF 2012

O R D E R

This writ petition is filed for a writ of mandamus declaring the action of the respondent-corporation in not accepting the bills of the petitioner's society for the month of June, 2012 as illegal and arbitrary and for a consequential direction to the respondent-corporation to receive the forthcoming months bills and clear the same. The case of the petitioner is that it is a society formed with all retired employees and legal representatives of the deceased employees as its members. The petitioner's society provides man power to the respondent-corporation for the purpose of sanitation work in twin cities of Hyderabad and Secunderabad and provides all necessary broom, wagons etc. for the above purpose. As per the provisions of G.O.Ms.No.30-MA, dated 18.01.

2000, the respondent corporation allots sanitation work to the societies without calling for tenders but through drawal of lots as 15% of the works in the corporation are reserved for entrustment to the societies, unemployed individuals and retrenched personnel belonging to scheduled castes, scheduled tribes and waddera communities. The last allotment of works was done on 09.12.2010 for a period of 3 months i.e., upto 31.03.2011. Later the work period was extended from time to time and the petitioner's society has submitted the bills for wages payable to the workers and the respondent-corporation had cleared all the bills and had paid wages upto the month of May, 2012. Thereafter, when the bills for the month of June, 2012 were submitted, the same has not been cleared till date.

Regarding the same, the petitioner's society made representations dated 09.07.2012 and 13.07.2012 requesting the authorities concerned to pass the bills for the month of June, 2012 and also accept the bills for the month of July, 2012. None of the representations are considered.

writ petition is filed.

Heard the learned counsel for the petitioner and the learned Standing counsel Sri P.Krishna Reddy for respondent-corporation. When the matter was listed on 30.07.2012, the learned counsel for the petitioner stated that amounts for the month of June, 2012 have been paid and for further instructions the matter was adjourned. Again when the matter was listed on 02.08.2012, the same was adjourned to ascertain about payment of amounts for the month of July, 2012. When the matter is listed today, the learned counsel appearing for respondents submitted that representations filed by the petitioner's society on 09.07.2012 and 13.07.2012 will be disposed of by the concerned authority and necessary action will be taken. Since it is asserted in the writ petition, that the work of sanitation was allotted to the petitioner's society in pursuance to G.

O.Ms.No.30MA and that the amounts were not paid for the work executed by the petitioner's society for the month of June, 2012, the petitioner's society made representations to the respondent-corporation for release of the amounts. Therefore, it is for the respondent-Corporation to consider the same and take action on the representations made by the petitioner's society for payment of amounts to the work executed by the members of the petitioner's society to their satisfaction. In view of the same, the 4th respondent is directed to consider the representations of the petitioner's society made on 09.07.2012 and 13.07.2012 regarding payment of amounts in respect of bills submitted by it and pass appropriate orders within a period of eight (8) weeks from the date of receipt of copy of this order.

With the above direction, the writ petition is disposed of. There shall be no order as to costs. As a sequel, miscellaneous petitions pending if any, shall stand closed.

____________________________ A.RAJASHEKER

REDDY,J Date: 15.06.2015 dv