JUDGMENT

Ranjan Gogoi, J.

This application (I.A. NO.248 of 2015) has been filed seeking the following direction from the Court:

"that iron-ore and manganese ore may be sold in Karnataka without recourse to e-auction conducted by the monitoring committee set up by this Hon'ble Court."

2. The response of the Central Empowered Committee ("CEC" for short) was sought for by this Court. Pursuant thereto a report dated 28th April, 2016 of the CEC has been submitted. In the said report the CEC has stated that it agrees with the statement of the applicant - Federation of Indian Industries, Southern Region (FIMI South) that the basic objectives behind the sale of iron ore through the Monitoring Committee, in terms of the various orders passed by this Court from time to time, have been achieved and an alternative system needs to be put in place. The main suggestions of the CEC are as follows:

(I) The mechanism must provide for the registration of both the buyers and sellers of iron-ore. The sellers of the ore, or the mining-ore lessees, must declare their statutory approvals, modalities of the Reclamation and Rehabilitation Plan ('R & R Plan') and the estimated annual quantity of iron-ore produced