C. S. P. SINGH, J. :- This writ petition and the connected writ petitions have been filed by transport operators belonging mostly to the State of Rajasthan and some of them to Uttar Pradesh.

2. The State Transport Undertaking of Uttar Pradesh framed four schemes for four routes:-

(i) Mathura-Alwar,

(ii) Mathura-Kama-Kosi,

(iii) Agra-Dholpur,

(iv) Agra-Bharatpur.

The four notifications in respect of all the four schemes were published in the U. P. Gazette. Copies of the notifications were also sent to Rajasthan for being pasted on the notice board of the transport authorities in Rajasthan. Some of the private bus operators filed objections. After disposing of these objections, the schemes as finally approved by the State Government, were published in the U. P. Gazette and notifications were also put up on the notice board of the transport authorities in Rajasthan. The schemes, though proposed by the State Transport Undertaking of Uttar Pradesh (hereinafter referred to as the Undertaking), received the concurrence of the State of Rajasthan. Put briefly, what the schemes did was to exclude all private bus operators on the aforesaid routes. The schemes provided that only buses belon