( 1 ) THE Petitioner has brought this Petition under Article 226 of the Constitution, as the Secretary of the Sribara Co-operative Sankha Silpi Society, praying for a writ of mandamus directing the Respondents who include the West Bengal Small Industries Corporation Ltd. (O. P. No. 1) and the Government of West Bengal (O. P. No. 2) to cancel the order dated the 5th August, 1966, made by Respondent No. 8, the Managing Director or Opposite Party No. 1 (hereinafter referred to as 'the Corporation'), which is at Ann. B to the Petition.

( 2 ) THE Petitioner is a member, along with a number of other conch-shell artisans, of the Sribara Co-operative Sankha Silpi Society Ltd. , and his case is that this Co-operative Society has a right "to get an equitable distribution of Chanks" from the Corporation. This alleged right is founded in this way: Chanks are grown only in the States of Madras and Ceylon. In order to ensure a supply of these chanks to artisans of West Bengal, the Government of West Bengal, in 1956, formulated a scheme through its Directorate of Industries, for the purchase of chanks from Madras and Ceylon and then to distribute them to the artisans through the Cooperative Soci

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