The petitioner is a Slate owned transport undertaking, operating stage carriage services in the entire North Arcot Ambedkar District/ Tiruvannamalai-Sambuvaravar District and also on the inter district and inter-state routes. The first respondent made an application for the grant of stage carriage permit before the second respondent in respect of the route Vellore to Alangayam, on 19. 1989. The second respondent rejected the same as one not in consonance with public interest, by order dated 12. 1991. In his order he stated that there was no representation from the public or any quarters that additional services had to be provided on the route in question and there were already adequate number of buses owned by the private operators and State Transport Undertakings on the route and the introduction of any additional, but facility would lead to unhealthy competition endangering public safety it was also observed by him that the sector of the route in question, from Vellore Bus Stand to Officer’s Line, of a length of 0.2 km. overlapped the approved scheme route Vellore to Kadapakkam, published in G.O.Ms.No.2290, some dated 29. 1974 in Tamil Nadu Government Gazette No.43(J),