JUDGMENT

SUBRAMONIUM PRASAD, J.

1. Petitioner has approached this Court for a direction to the Respondent to set aside the decision dated 08.11.2019 taken by the Technical Committee of the Respondent herein rejecting the claim of the Petitioner for release of subsidy amounting to Rs. 4.36 crores.

2. The Petitioner is a cold chain solution provider and offers integrated cold chain and preservation infrastructure facilities from the farm gate to the consumer. It is stated that services of the Petitioner cover the creation of the infrastructure facility along with the entire supply chain, namely, pre- cooling, weighing, sorting, grading, multi product/multi temperature cold storage packing facility, IQF, blast freezing and reefer vans, mobile cooling units for facilitating storage & distribution of horticulture, organic produce, marine, dairy, meat and poultry etc. It is stated that during the year 2016, a Centrally Sponsored Scheme called Pradhan Mantri Kisan Sampada Yojana (hereinafter referred to as 'the PMKSY') was launched by the Respondent herein for creation of food processing and preservation capacities and for the modernisation/expansion of existing food processing units with th