COMMON ORDER:

Ms. D.Neeharika Reddy, learned counsel for the applicant.

Mr. V.Ravinder Rao, learned Senior Counsel representing Ms. Sunita Nawandar, learned counsel for the respondent.

2. By means of these applications under Section 11(6) of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 (hereinafter referred to as ‘the Act’), the applicant seeks appointment of an arbitrator.

3. Facts giving rise to filing of these applications briefly stated are that the applicant is a Partnership Firm registered under the provisions of the Partnership Act, 1932 . The applicant is engaged in the business of construction works and executes contracts for civil engineering works. The respondent is a Private Limited company and is engaged in the business of procuring civil engineering works by tendering with Public Works Department. The respondent gets the work executed by engaging specialists in the field by engaging the sub contractor.

4. The case of the applicant is that the respondent has engaged the applicant as sub-contractor by executing sub- contract agreement for 9 out of 10 works. It is the case of the applicant that in respect of Telugu Ganga Project awarded by the erstwhile Government of Andhra P