https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=187780 A statutory preference for a State transport undertaking in stage carriage permit selection on inter-State routes was upheld as a valid public-interest criterion, because it operated only after comparative assessment where applicants were otherwise equal and did not exclude private operators from competition. Renewal applications were required to be treated as fresh permit applications, so the same preference rule continued to apply and was not displaced by the renewal preference provision. The marking system used in Tamil Nadu for permit selection, including the allocation of 5 marks to a State transport undertaking, was treated as a permissible objective assessment method, and the challenge to the selection process failed. en-us Fri, 21 Oct 1983 00:00:00 +0530 Mon, 07 Nov 2016 12:02:23 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=187780 A statutory preference for a State transport undertaking in stage carriage permit selection on inter-State routes was upheld as a valid public-interest criterion, because it operated only after comparative assessment where applicants were otherwise equal and did not exclude private operators from competition. Renewal applications were required to be treated as fresh permit applications, so the same preference rule continued to apply and was not displaced by the renewal preference provision. The marking system used in Tamil Nadu for permit selection, including the allocation of 5 marks to a State transport undertaking, was treated as a permissible objective assessment method, and the challenge to the selection process failed. Case-Laws Indian Laws Fri, 21 Oct 1983 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=187780