ORDER

K.R.Mohapatra, J

Petitioner, in this writ petition, assails the selection of opposite party No.3-Sumitra Choudhury as Distributor of LPG of opposite party No.1-Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (for short, ‘Corporation’) for Subarnapur under Jaradagada Grama Panchayat in the district of Ganjam.

2. Pursuant to an advertisement dated 16.11.2016 (Annexure-1) published by opposite party No.1 in daily newspaper, petitioner, opposite party No.3 along with eight others applied for LPG Distributorship, in which opposite party No.3 was selected for being appointed as such. It reveals from the averments made in the writ petition that Unified Guidelines for selection of LPG Distributor of existing Oil Companies in India (Annexure-2) (for short, ‘Guidelines’) has been published in July, 2016 and the selection was made in accordance with the said Guidelines (Annexure-2). The ‘Mode of Selection’ of LPG Distributorship is prescribed in Para-6 of the Guidelines, which reads as follows:-

“6. MODE OF SELECTION

Selection for LPG Distributorship will be done by inviting ap