D Ramanaiah vs. The State Of Andhra Pradesh

Court:High Court of Andhra Pradesh

Judge:Hon'ble D Ramesh

Case Status:Unknown Status

Order Date:22 Oct 2021

CNR:APHC010383452021

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HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH :: AMARAVATI

SI.<br>No.	DATE	<b>ORDER</b>
2.	22.10.2021	DR, J
		In<br>the<br>present writ<br>petition,<br>in
		implementation of various Central and State
		the<br>schemes,<br>respondents/concerned
		Municipalities have issued notifications inviting
		tenders for various works. Accordingly, the writ
		petitioner has participated in the said tenders,
		into agreements with<br>entered<br>concerned
		Municipalities, on different dates and they have
		completed the works as per the terms of their
		agreement. Subsequently, concerned Municipal
		Authorities<br>have inspected the works and
		prepared the final bills, the same were uploaded
		in the CFMS portal. After some time, said bills
		were cancelled without assigning any reasons.
		The concerned Municipal authorities have tried
		to upload once again the final bills, however,
		portal was blocked. Despite<br>said<br>repeated
		representations made by the writ petitioner,
		concerned Municipal authorities expressed their
		inability to process the bills. Hence, the present
		writ petition.
		Learned Government Pleaders for Finance
		for Municipal Administration produced<br>and
		memo, dated 16.07.2021, directing all the
		Commissioners to take necessary action, for
		payment of pending bills for completed works
		from the available general funds and also placed
		G.O.Rt.No.4096,<br>dated<br>03.09.2021,<br>the

releasing<br>Rupees<br>100<br>crores<br>of<br>additional
funds/special<br>funds<br>in<br>relaxation<br>of<br>treasury
control, for payment of pending bills for the
works completed, taken up under SCSP during
the years 2018-19 and 2019-20.
The<br>learned<br>Government<br>Pleaders
requested time to process the bills, in view of
the G.O.Rt.No.40963, dated 03.09.2021, and it
is also submitted by the learned Government
Pleaders that the authorities would consider and
pay the bills, after uploading the same in CFMS
portal. However, this Court did not consider the
request<br>made<br>by<br>the<br>learned<br>Government
Pleaders.
Therefore,<br>respondents 1 to 4, without
taking up the technical objections,<br>are directed
to pay the bills, which are pending since a long
time<br>to<br>the<br>writ<br>petitioner<br>and<br>to<br>submit
compliance report within four weeks.
Post after four weeks.
Office is directed to print the name of
Government Pleader for Municipal Administration
& Urban Development for R1, Standing counsel
for R2 and R3, Government Pleader for Finance
and Planning for R4, in the cause list.

_______<br>DR, J
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