(1) WE are happy to find that the Cabinet secretary has taken the appropriate initiative as indicated in our order dated 11/9/1991 and has reported to us that the dispute between the government Department and the public -sector undertaking of the Union of India has been settled. In that view of the matter no further action is necessary on the petition.

(2) IN his report the Cabinet secretary has stated :

"I would also like to state that the government respects the views expressed By this Honourable court and has accepted them that public undertakings of central government and the Union of India should not fight their litigation in court by spending money on fees on counsel, court fees, procedural expenses and wasting public time. It is in this context that the Cabinet Secretariat has issued instructions from time to time to all Departments of the government of India as well as to public undertakings of the central government to the effect that all disputes, regardless of the type, should be resolved amicably by mutual consultation or through the good offices of empowered agencies of the government or through arbitration and recourse to litigation should be elimi