(1) THE scheme of rehabilitation of Ashok paper Mills in Darbhanga in the State of Bihar was finalised by this Court after prolonged negotiations by order dated July 6, 1996. More than two and a half years have elapsed, yet the implementation has not been possible for one reason or the other and the parties required to implement the scheme are putting forth blame on one side or the other. This Court had called upon by order dated July 8, 1996 to file a status report indicating what all has happened in the matter of implementation of the scheme and pursuant to the aforesaid order, the Secretary, Government of India, Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion in the Ministry of Industry has filed a status report. The said report indicates that the main obstacle in implementing the scheme by way of running the factory is the supply of power. Under the scheme, the State of Bihar had taken the responsibility of supplying uninterrupted power obviously in the interest of the hundreds of labourers who would have otherwise been disengaged if the factory would have come to a closure. From the status report it transpires that the State is not in a position to supply uninterrupted p