Content Provider | Supreme Court of India |
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e-ISSN | 30484839 |
Language | English |
Access Restriction | NDLI |
Subject Keyword | mandatory use of extrusion technology Government Contracts/Tender not valid food for Anganwadis eligibility conditions |
Content Type | Text |
Resource Type | Law Judgement |
Jurisdiction | India |
Act(s) Referred | National Food Security Act, 2013 (20 of 2013) |
Case(s) Referred | Referred Case 0 |
Case Type | Appeal |
Court | Supreme Court of India |
Disposal Nature | Others |
Headnote | Government Contracts/Tender: Eligibility conditions of the tender – Reasonableness – Contracts for the supply of food forAnganwadis – Issuance of tender notice by State of Maharashtra –Supply of ready to cook food to Anganwadi centres as supplementary nutritional food for children, pregnant women and lactating mothers,adolescents girls under Integrated Child Development Scheme(ICDS) – Case of the petitioner that conditions in the tender insisting on mandatory use of extrusion technology in preparation of meals-THR(take home ration); that Mahila Mandals to have automated production units, turnover of Rs.1 crore or more, and that under the guise of the conditions of the tender, the contract given by the State to large corporates/contractors instead of the local Mahila Mandals, thus, the conditions of tender arbitrary and unreasonable– Held: Imposition of the condition in the tender not in tune with the spirit of the Act and the orders passed by this Court as well as the policy framed by the Government of India – Thus, the tender conditions cannot be held to be valid as they were arbitrarily fixed – Tender notice issued is struck down – Tenders are directed to be invited afresh, within the stipulated period strictly as per the policy and observations made in this judgment – State Government to make alternative arrangement and are restrained from continuing the existing system of supply in the interregnum period –National Food Security Act, 2013. |
Judge | Hon'ble Mr. Justice Arun Mishra Hon'ble Mr. Justice Deepak Gupta |
Neutral Citation | 2019 INSC 278 |
Petitioner | Vaishnorani Mahila Bachat Gat |
Respondent | State Of Maharashtra & Ors. |
SCR | [2019] 3 S.C.R. 485 |
Judgement Date | 2019-02-26 |
Case Number | 2336 |
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