considerably by the State, vide the 3rd Corrigendum dated 16.04.2024. The last date of submission of tenders/bids pursuant to the NIT dated 08.03.2024 is 02.05.2024 and the 3rd corrigendum was issued prior to the said date, i.e. 16.04.2024. As such, as on 16.04.2024, none of the bids of the tenderers had been opened. The issue of whether the State Government, wants to procure a certain quantity of seeds is the sole prerogative of the State Government as they are the procuring authority and is purely an administrative decision. Further, this Court is of the view that the petitioner cannot be said to be an aggrieved person, as no legal or fundamental right of the petitioner has been violated. Only because the State respondents have decided to reduce the quantity of seeds to be procured by way of a 3rd corrigendum, prior to the last date of submission of tenders, does not, in any manner indicate, that some persons legal or fundamental right has been violated. Further, this is not a public interest litigation. In that view of the matter, this Court does not find any merit in the writ petition. This Court also finds that the judgment of the Supreme Court in the case of Sharma Transport (supra) is not applicable to the facts of the case, inasmuch as, this Court does not find any arbitrariness in the reduction of the quantity of seeds to be procured by the respondent, i.e. Assam Seeds Corporation.
