Calcutta High Court (Appellete Side)
Cl (Raisuddin Sk. & Ors vs The State Of West on 8 September, 2016
Author: Dipankar Datta
Bench: Dipankar Datta
1 654 08.09.2016
W.P.19709(W) of 2015 CL (Raisuddin Sk. & Ors. vs. The State of West pg Bengal & Ors.) Mr. Chitta Ranjan Chakraborty Mr. Somnath Banerjee Mr. Sumanta Chakraborty.............for the petitioners It is submitted by Mr. Chakraborty, learned advocate for the petitioners that deficit court fees have been put in vide filing no. A-22589 dated November 23, 2015. Therefore, the writ petition shall be maintainable at the instance of all the petitioners.
The petitioners applied for benefits under Indira Awas Yojana. Such applications not having been considered, this writ petition has been presented before this Bench It has been brought to the notice of this Bench that the Indira Awas Yojana (Scheme) has been restructured into Pradhan Mantri Awaas Yojana-Gramin (PMAY-G) with effect from April 01, 2016. It has not been shown to this Bench that applications for benefits under Indira Awas Yojana shall be treated as applications under PMAY-G. In that view of the matter, the petitioners' earlier applications cannot be treated to be pending. This 2 writ petition stands disposed of granting liberty to the petitioners to apply under PMAY-G before the appropriate authority and if such applications are received, the appropriate authority shall proceed to consider and dispose of the same in accordance with law.
There shall be no order as to costs.
Urgent photostat certified copy of this order, if applied for, be furnished to the parties expeditiously.
(DIPANKAR DATTA,J.)