the High Court passed an order dated 7th May, 2010 directing the appellants to issue a work order in favour of the respondent. 8. In view of the order dated 7th May, 2010 passed by the High Court in the above appeal, a formal work order dated 10th May, 2010 was issued by the appellants to the respondent who commenced the work and collected the revenue for the period commencing from 10th May, 2010 till 7th April, 2011(time of one week extended under orders of the High Court). After conclusion of the contract period, the respondent filed a writ petition before the High Court being OWP No. 743 of 2013 contending that his contract was supposed to commence from 1st April, 2010 and was to run for a period of 365 days till 31st March, 2011. However, the said period was truncated because the same could be commenced from 10th May, 2010 only and hence, the respondent suffered a loss of collection of earnings for a period of 33 days. He, therefore, claimed pro-rata amount of Rs. 71,06,276/-