Dr. T.N. Singh, J. -- 1. Petitioner was registered as A-II Class Contractor in the Irrigation Department on 4.10.1985. His registration is valid for five years. He had done some work for the Department and in that connection, he raised a "dispute" claiming Rs.3,60,214/- from the Department by way of a reference made to the Tribunal constituted under the Madhya Pradesh Madhyastham Adhikaran Adhiniyam, 1983, for short, 'the Adhiniyam'. He did not pay the requisite court-fee, but made an application that he be treated as an indigent person and allowed to pursue the reference application without payment of court-fee. By order dated 10.7.1990, his prayer being rejected by the Tribunal, he has challenged that order before us on the writ side.

2. Although in the impugned order, the Tribunal has found that the applicant/petitioner was possessed of sufficient means to pay the requisite court-fee of Rs.11,942/-, in this Court, the legal plea forcefully pressed by Government Advocate, Shri S.B. Mishra, is that provisions of order 33, CPC being not applicable to the proceedings before the Tribunal and otherwise too, there being no inherent jurisdiction vested in that forum to entertain a