( 1 ) THE question raised in this writ petition, which is in the nature of public interest litigation, is as to whether the engagement of third-party inspection of the contract works of the Delhi Jal Board ( hereinafter for the sake of brevity referred to as, the Board ) as contained in the Letter of intent dated 19. 06. 2002, is valid.

( 2 ) THE petitioner is a partnership firm. It undertakes various contract works under the Board. According to the petitioner, the first respondent herein has on its rolls a large number of Engineers in addition to the third respondent herein to look after its works. Besides the same, the Board from time to time receives free services of the Chief technical Examiner, Ministry of Home, Govt. of India for cross-checking the quality of each work and action proposed by him is binding on the technical staff as also the contractors and in that view of the matter the impugned policy decision was unwarranted. Besides the same, services of the third parties at an average cost of 2. 75% of the contract, value for inspection of their various contracts in addition to the engineering staff being provided, which shall cost the Exchequer an additional