JUDGMENT

M. M. DAS, J. : The petitioners, NEUTRON SYSTEMS PVT. LTD. and its Director, in the present writ petition have called in question the inaction of the Government of Orissa in its Trans¬port Department, in not answering the queries made by the peti¬tioners under Annexure-4 to the writ petition and in proceeding with the tender process for awarding the contract work for estab¬lishing necessary infrastructure and undertaking the management of the Process of Modernization of Transport Administration and Operationalisation of e-Governance by issuance of Smart Card Basis driving licences and registration certificates in the State.

2. The petitioners’ case in a nutshell is that a tender notice was published by the Transport Commissioner, Government of Orissa in Commerce and Transport Department on 15.9.2005, invit¬ing bids for private participation in Smart Card System for driving licences and registration certificates in the State of Orissa. It was intimated therein that the interested parties can down load the draft Invitation For Bidding (in short ‘IFB’) document from the website mentioned in the said notice between 15.9.2005 to 15.10.2005 and the cost of the draft bid document