GUPTA, J.—There was a bus route from Borawar to Pushkar (hereinafter referred to as the route) about 90 Kilometers in length, which lay partly in Jodhpur Region and partly in the Jaipur Region of the State of Rajasthan. The operators of the route appear to have submitted an application for the extension of the route from Pushkar to Ajmer, but the State Transport Authority, Jaipur (hereinafter referred to as the S. T. A.) rejected the aforesaid application by its resolution dated February 5, 1973 and did not grant the desired extension. The petitioner No. 1 is the Sarpanch of the Gram Panchayat, Baser in Nagaur district, while the petitioner No. 2 is the Sarpanch of Gram Panchayat, Kadel in Ajmer district. The two petitioners, acting on behalf of the inhabitants of the area and the Panchayats of which they were Sarpanchs, some time later submitted a representation to the S. T. A. that the route in question should be extended upto Ajmer so as to make available the inhabitants of the area a direct bus service for reaching Ajmer and thereby avoid unnecessary change of buses at Pushkar. The S.T.A. then got a survey conducted in the matter and the survey report favoured the grant of an e

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