Thiru Justice E.J. Bellie, President—The aggrieved opposite party against whom an award has been passed by the District Forum has filed this appeal. The complainant (respondent herein) entered into an Agreement (Ex. A-1) with the opposite party on 14.9.1991 for setting up of a Manufacturing Unit for manufacture of Mono/Di/Tri Calcium Phosphate. As per Ex. A-1 agreement, the opposite party has been appointed as the Technical Consultant and he has to render four types of services as mentioned in Clause 6 of the agreement, viz.,

(a) deputing his technicians to prepare a product sample at pilot plant level as per ISI specifications;

(b) preparation and submission of a detailed project report within 30 days from the date of agreement;

(c) rendition of help to prepare designs and drawings for all the fabrication and machinery works undertaken for fabrication by the complainant at the site and supervision and inspection whenever necessity arises.

(d) provision of training to the staff of the complainant for a period of 30 days to run the plant successfully and smoothly.

The service charges were fixed at Rs. 1,25,000/- and on the date of Ex. A-1 agreement itself, a sum of Rs. 5,000/