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Clause 3 the Memorandum of Understanding deals with financial assistance which the respondents-
Government of Jharkhand was required to pay in the form of Grant-in-aid and Performance Linked Bonus etc. to the applicant for the purpose of running the hospitals. The concerned department was required to pay said Performance Linked Bonus on an annual basis to the applicant on successful achievement of performance benchmarks set out in the Memorandum of Understanding.
Thereafter, the applicants is approaching regularly with a request to make the payment of Performance Linked Bonus but the same was kept pending. 
      It   is   the    case     of    the       applicants      that    on

15.02.2011,      a    meeting        was    convened          under    the
Chairmanship of Tribal Welfare Commissioner, wherein a decision was taken that a sum equivalent to 5% of the annual operation cost of the 50-Beded MESO Rural Hospital shall be given to the respective NGO/Agency running the said hospitals as annual Performance Linked Bonus, subject to achievement of Performance Targets set out for the respective Financial Year. It is alleged that the though applicants achieved all the targets fixed by the Government time to time but the Performance Linked Bonus was not given to it, as such the applicants submitted various letters claiming Performance Linked Bonus for the relevant time.

8. Counter affidavit filed on behalf of respondents in Arbitration Application No. 55 of 2021 which has been adopted in all the Arbitration Applications, wherein inter alia stand has been taken that applicants have not obeyed the conditions stipulated in the Memorandum of Understanding since on the one hand, the applicants are claiming Performance Linked Bonus etc. on an annual basis as per Clause 3.5 of the Memorandum of Understanding whereas on the other hand, the applicants have disobeying Clause 8.1 of Memorandum of Understanding. It has further been stated that the applicants may approach the authority as per condition stipulated in the Memorandum of Understanding.