Arijit Banerjee, J.

1. These writ petitions have been filed as Public Interest Litigations (in short ‘PILs’). The prayers of the writ petitioners are for a direction on the respondent authorities to take appropriate measures to check the spread of Dengue in the State of West Bengal and for providing adequate medical facilities for the treatment of those afflicted with the disease. After we heard learned Counsel appearing for some of the writ petitioners, we had directed the State Government to file a report in the form of an affidavit disclosing the number of Dengue affected patients who succumbed to the disease as also the steps that were taken by the Government for combating the disease. Such a report dated 9 November 2017 was filed in this Court. Thereafter, we heard other learned Counsel appearing in support of the other writ petitions. After all the learned Counsel for the writ petitioners concluded their respective submissions, learned Adv. General appearing for the State took a preliminary point of maintainability of these writ petitions as PIL. Learned Adv. General argued at length as to why according to him, these PILs are not maintainable and should be rejected i