( 1 ) THIS petition is filed by the petitioner Co-operative Society registered under the Gujarat Co-operative Societies Act, 1961, for an appropriate writ, direction and/or order directing the respondent-Authorities to pay to the petitioner-Society remaining amount of cash subsidy of Rs. 14,37,500. 00 with interest at the rate of 12% with effect from 2/03/1984 till the date of payment of the amount since the petitioner unlawfully and illegally deprived of the said payment by the respondents.

( 2 ) IT is the case of the petitioner that it is a Co-operative Society registered under the Gujarat Co-operative Societies Act, 1961. It is doing business in manufacturing cotton yarn. The members of the petitioner-Society are agriculturists growing cotton and Co-operative Societies of various villages of Sabarkantha district. It is stated in the petition that at the time when the petition was filed, there were about 7000 members of the petitioner-Society and about 1200 employees were working. It was a large-scale industry established in 1964.

( 3 ) ACCORDING to the petitioner, with a view to encourage industrial development in rural and backward areas to have balanced growth in th