IN THE HIGH COURT OF ORISSA AT CUTTACK W.P.(C) No.4244 of 2025 Dinesh Raudia …. Petitioner Ms. S. Mohapatra, Advocate -versus- Chairman -cum- Managing Director, Mahanadi Coalfields Ltd. and others …. Opp. Parties Mr. Tapan Kumar Dash, Addl. Govt. Advocate (for opp. parties nos.3 & 4) CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE S.K. SAHOO HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE CHITTARANJAN DASH Order No. ORDER 11.04.2025 01. This matter is taken up through Hybrid arrangement (video conferencing/physical mode). The petitioner Dinesh Raudia has filed this writ petition with a prayer for a direction to the opp. parties 1 & 2 to pay the compensation amount to him with employment packages in respect of acquisition of Ac.0.080 decimals of homestead land under Rehabilitation and Resettlement policy within a stipulated time. The notice dated 12.05.2023 under Annexure- 2, which is issued to Bhagatram Raudia, the father of the petitioner, indicates that for acquisition of land appertaining to Khata no.778(p), Plot no.6230(p), Ac.0.08 decimals of Mouza-Jurabaga, the father of the petitioner has been noticed to receive the compensation amount of Rs.11,00,249.38 (eleven lakhs two hundred forty nine and thirty eight paisa) and to appear before the authority on 15.05.2023. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the father of the petitioner is suffering from serious ailments for which he is not in a position to appear before the concerned authority to receive the compensation amount and for such reason, the representation was submitted before the General Manager, Mahanadi Coalfields Ltd. Lakhanpur Area, Jharsuguda, opp. party no.2, with a request to handover the compensation amount to the petitioner. There is no application before us by Bhagatram Raudia authorizing the petitioner to receive such compensation amount. If his father is really suffering from ailments, he could have filed proper application authorizing any person to receive such compensation amount, which has not been done in this case. Therefore, the prayer of the petitioner to dispose of the representation by the opp. party no.2 and to give the compensation amount to him cannot be accepted. Another notice has been annexed to the writ petition under Annexure-3 in which also the father of the petitioner was noticed to appear before the authority within a week from 20.05.2024 to receive the compensation amount of Rs.12,14,212.16 (twelve lakhs fourteen thousand two hundred twelve and sixteen paisa) and the land particulars have been mentioned therein as Mouza- Belpahad (Jurabaga), Khata no.778, Plot no.6230(p). In that view of the matter, we find no merit in the writ petition, which is accordingly dismissed. ( S.K. Sahoo) Judge (Chittaranjan Dash) Judge PKSahoo/Rajesh