RAKESH KUMAR SINGH Vs. UNION OF INDIA

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THE petitioner before this Court alleges arbitrariness and adoption of non -transparent methods by various departments and agencies of the government in holding public competitions for designing of symbols/logos for them. According to the petitioner, the selection of artists/vendors for designing such symbols/logos is being done without giving wide publicity and thereby confining the process of selection to a privileged group of persons, which results in depriving the other citizens, of participating in such competitions and thereby contributing in the national life and its development. The following competitions, according to the petitioner, were held in a non -transparent and arbitrary manner:

(2.) IT is thus quite evident that under the Allocation of Business Rules, framed by the Govt. of India, no particular Ministry is competent to lay down guidelines to be used by all Ministries and departments of the Government in the matter of procedure to be adopted for holding public competitions to design logos/emblems etc., for various Ministries/Departments/attached offices of the Government or for various public sector undertakings which are controlled by different departments. Also, a uniform policy may not be appropriate for all Ministries and Departments of the Government, which perform different functions. Therefore, if such guidelines are to be framed, every Ministry/Department of the Government would have to frame its own guidelines for use of it as well as of its attached subordinate offices as well as the PSUs controlled by it.