(Per Justice G. Bhavani Prasad)

1. G.O.Ms.No.274 Panchayat Raj & Rural Development (RWS.III) Department, dated 08-09-2009 (for short “G.O.Ms. No.274”) by which G.O.Ms.No.350 Panchayat Raj & Rural Development (RWS-III) Department, dated 31-08-2006 (for short “G.O.Ms.No.350) was amended substituting the original paragraph No.5 with a new paragraph providing for the names of the local persons, namely, a member from among the elected Ward Members of the Gram Panchayat, a Woman Member from among the Self Help Group and a Person of the village, who is having interest in development activities, to be submitted by the Mandal Parishad Development Officer to the District Collector, who will in turn take the approval of the District In-charge Minister, for reconstitution of the Village Level Implementation-cum-Monitoring Committee at Gram Panchayat Level in respect of various activities under INDIRAMMA Programme, is under challenge in this batch of writ petitions.

2. The petitioners are mostly Sarpanches of various Gram Panchayats (except the 3rd petitioner in W.P. No.20701 of 2009, who is a Mandal Parishad Territorial Constituency Member) and contend that various Government Orders