Privileges cannot be at states pleasure.
1. Privileges cannot be at states pleasure.
. In Ramana Dayaram Shetty v. The International Airport Authority of India & Ors. (1979) 3 SCR 1014, the Supreme Court noticed state pervasiveness and ubiquity in the economy as follows:
"To-day the Government, in a welfare State, is the regulator and dispenser of special services and provider of a large number of benefits. The valuables dispensed by Government take many forms, but they all share one characteristic.
WP(C) Nos. 876/2007, 1212/2007 & 1161/2008 Page 41 They are steadily taking the place of traditional forms of wealth. These valuables which derive from relationships to Government are of many kind leases, licenses, contracts and so forth. With the increasing magnitude and range of governmental functions as we move closer to a welfare State, more and more of our wealth consists of these new forms. Some of these forms of wealth may be in the nature of legal rights but the large majority of them are in the nature of privileges. But on that account, it cannot be said that they do not enjoy any legal protection nor can they be regarded as that they do not enjoy any legal protection nor can they be regard as gratuity furnished by the State so that the State may withhold, grant or revoke it at its pleasure..."