CAV Order

1. All these writ petitions have been brought with a common prayer to quash the impugned order dated 26.11.2021 passed by the State authority, therefore, it is decided by this common order.

2. The petitioners in all the cases are the Women Self Help Groups (SHG), who are presently working under the scheme of ready to eat food program under the contracts with respective authorities in which the petitioners make purchase of the groceries, prepare the Take Home Ration(THR) and supply the same to the concerned and, thus, implementing the ICDS Scheme in the public interest. The State Government by the impugned order dated 26.11.2021 has ordered that the present scheme of making provision for supply of nutritional food by the way of Take Home Ration(THR) shall be dispensed with and the manufacturing and supply of the Take Home Ration shall be taken over by the respondent/Chhattisgarh State Agro Seed Agricultural Development Corporation which shall be referred as respondent-Beej Nigam. This order is under challenge in all the petitions.

3. It is submitted by the learned Senior Counsel Mr. Collin Gonsalves for the petitioners in W.P.(C) No.455/2022, that the impugned order is contra