( 1 ) THIS writ petition by way of public interest litigation is filed by the President of Sri Balaji Park Residents welfare Association, Sector-2, MVP Colony, visakhapatnam for a writ or in the nature of a mandamus declaring the action of the 1st respondent - Visakhapatnam Urban development Authority (VUDA) in dividing the vacant site in an extent of about ac. 0. 85 cents in S. No. SP and 26p of Peda waltair village situate in Sector -2 of MVP colony, reserved for the community purpose, into small plots and selling the same in public auction as illegal arbitrary and for a consequential direction to the respondents to reserve the said site for the public purpose such as community centre or park and nursery in the interest of the residents of the colony. Facts:

( 2 ) THE 1st respondent in 1972 acquired land to an extent of 400 acres in the village of Muvvalavani Palem and published a lay out in the year 1978 calling applications from the public for allotment of house sites of various types viz. , HIG, MIG, lig, EWs for open plots as also for constructed houses. It has been notified that the layout has got all the infrastructure such a roads, water supply, drainage inc