Administrative reconsideration ordered: petitioner to file representation; authorities must decide within set time; court preserves review.

Petitioner was directed to prefer a detailed representation within three weeks and respondent authorities were directed to decide that representation within eight weeks after receipt, in consultation as required; this prescribes a time-bound administrative reconsideration process while expressly preserving the petitioner's right to approach the court if aggrieved. The court refrained from examining or deciding the merits of the underlying dispute, treating the remedy as administrative reconsideration rather than judicial adjudication.

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Issues: Whether the petitioner's grievance should be remitted to the respondent authorities for consideration by way of representation with directions for time-bound decision, rather than being adjudicated on merits by this Court.

Analysis: The petitioner's grievance has not been finally rejected by the respondent authorities and the parties sought a course permitting administrative reconsideration. A time-bound mechanism for submission of a detailed representation by the petitioner and subsequent consideration and decision by the respondent authorities was proposed to potentially render the writ petition unnecessary. The Court directed the petitioner to submit a representation within three weeks and directed respondent no. 3, in consultation with respondent no. 2, to decide the representation within eight weeks of receipt, while preserving the petitioner's right to approach the Court if aggrieved by the administrative decision. The Court expressly did not examine the merits of the underlying dispute.

Conclusion: The petition is disposed of by directing the petitioner to prefer a detailed representation within three weeks and directing the respondent authorities to decide the representation within eight weeks; the petitioner may approach the Court thereafter if aggrieved. No decision on merits was made in favour of either party.

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