The Mahabubabad Gram Panchayat, represented by its Upa-Sarpanch, filed the present writ petition praying for a Writ of Mandamus declaring the inaction of the respondents in upgrading the Mahabubabad Major Gram Panchayat as Grade-I Municipality, on the basis of the income as well as population, under Section 2(42-a) and Section 3 of the A.P. Municipalities Act, 1965, and Rule 3 of A.P. Transitional Area and Smaller Urban Areas (Fixation of Criteria) Rules 1955, as well as the resolutions passed by the Mahabubabad Gram Panchayat Committee and also the recommendation of the Divisional Panchayat Officer, Mahabubabad as illegal, arbitrary, null and void, and consequently direct the respondents to upgrade the Mahabubabad Major Gram Panchayatas Grade-I Municipality, and pass such other suitable orders.

2. Sri Mittakola Venkata Rama Rao, learned counsel representing the petitioner, had taken this Court through the criteria, which are to be satisfied for the purpose of upgrading, and would submit that the petitioner Gram Panchayat satisfies all the requirements.

Despite the resolutions made, for the reasons best known, the Gram Panchayat in question is not being upgraded. Learned counsel