Shorthand Dictation 80 Words per minute with outline, 5 Minute Test 48

With barely a day or two to go before the Centre has to start evicting out-of-turn allottees from ²⁰ Government bungalows and flats in accordance with the Supreme Court’s order, the Government is caught in a piquant situation.

It is, on ⁴⁰ the one hand, under tremendous pressure from the bureaucracy to promulgate an ordinance which would regularize the allotments the Supreme ⁶⁰ Court has found fault with. On the other hand, any effort on its part to do so would inevitably be ⁸⁰ challenged in court, with the Government being charged of contempt of court for trying to circumvent the Supreme Court’s order ¹⁰⁰ to evict out-of-turn allotters by the third week of June.

What has further complicated matters for the Government ¹²⁰ is the Supreme Court’s latest stand on the issue. When the centre approached the Court last Friday for “clarifications” about ¹⁴⁰ allottees who were asked to vacate their premises but had since then become entitled to their premises but had since then become entitled to their accommodation, the judges said ¹⁶⁰ that the
Government should make the allotment to them only after evicting them first. In another context, it noted that ¹⁸⁰ it was for the Government to implement the court’s judgment.

The court has, in fact over a period of time ²⁰⁰ rejected as many as 30 review petitions which ranged from pleas that they be allowed to retain their accommodation on ²²⁰ humanitarian grounds to requests for waivers on the penal rents imposed on VIPs.

            Earlier, in accordance with the ²⁴⁰ apex court’s order of December 1996 that the irregular allottees be evicted within six months, eviction notices were served ²⁶⁰ on about 2,500 Government employees in the middle of March. The 90-day period given for vacating the premises ²⁸⁰ comes to an end on June 16 with the last batch of persons served notice having to evict them by ³⁰⁰ June 23. Should they fail to vacate these by the stipulated dates-as many of them have failed to do ³²⁰ so far-the Government was directed to evict them?

With the bureaucracy-particularly its top brass which comes in the ³⁴⁰ court verdict’s ambit-exerting its pressure on the government, the Centre has been examining the possibility of promulgating an ordinance ³⁶⁰ before the court’s deadline for the evictions sets in early this week.

While the draft text of the proposed ordinance has ⁸³⁰ already been vetted by the Prime Minister’s also reportedly called upon for their ⁴⁰⁰ views, President Shankar Dayal Sharma too appears to have been sounded about it, sources indicate.