area of the land. As per the aforesaid policy, the rates arrived at for allotment of shop to the petitioner came @ Rs.8864/- per square meter. As against the aforesaid, allotment in Grain Mandi was in pursuance to the earlier policy. In fact, allotment of shops in Grain Mandi was made on rent basis on 18.6.1992. The State Government came out with the policy to give the shop/land on lease to such of the allottees if they prefer to take 99 years lease instead of continuing on rent. Therein, the rates to be charged was decided at 25% of the DLC rate thus the calculation of the rate was on a formula different than the formula made applicable on the petitioner. For Grain Mandi, the allotment of shops on rent basis was made in first phase somewhere in the year 1992, whereas, in Fruit and Vegetable Mandi it started on lease basis in the year 2006. The comparison in reference to the allotment of shops in Grain Mandi are erroneous, rather, cannot be compared with the allotment of shop in Fruit and Vegetable Mandi. The allotment of shops in two different Mandi was not only under different policy but in reference to different formula to calculate the rate of allotment of shop/ plot. In the background aforesaid, rates charged for lease in Grain Mandhi cannot be applied to the allotment of shops made in Fruits and Vegetable Mandi.
