Judgment

RANGANATH MISRA, J. :- All these appeals are by special leave and are directed against judgments rendered by the Kerala High Court in Writ Petitions filed before it. The High Court in each case refused to grant relief.

2. Two Notifications/Orders issued by the State Government are relevant. The first one is dated 11-4-1979 and the second is dated 29-9-1980 which was published in the State Gazette on 21-10-1980. For convenience, the texts of the two Notifications/Orders are extracted below :

"Order dated 11-4-1979 :

The incentives now given to the industries in the State are too meagre and inadequate to attract industries to this State when compared to the incentives available for the industries in many other States. Further there are certain inherent disincentives also peculiar to this State such as high wage rates, minimum wages for certain sections, lack of availability of raw materials, etc. The question of offering some incentives by the State to attract new industries has been under consideration of the Government.

The question whether any additional incentive can be given to the industrial concern the State plans to consider in detail and it was felt that the question of