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  Route permit-Minimum of 2 ("B" Part) to be granted to individual operators in case of long routes.   Route permit-No review lies against order of Appellate authority.   Motor Vehicles Act (IV of 1939), S. 47-Guiding principles for grant of route permits.   ORDER   The Regional Transport Authority, Lahore, in its meeting held on the 16th, 17th, 18th and 24th February 1961, granted one `B' Part each for the four route permits advertised on the Lyallpur-Leiah to the following out of applicant companies: --   Khawaja Transport Co. Lyallpur.   Ahmed Transport Co. Lahore.   Tariq Transport Co. Lahore.   New Khan Transport Co. Lahore.   (1) Messrs Muhammad Nazeer Inayatullah & Co. (2) Tariq Goods and PassengerTransport Co. (3) New Kisan Transport Co. (4) The Evergreen Transport Co. (5) Iqbal Transport Service, and (6) Pakistan Transport Co., have come up in appeal from this order claiming that they have preferential rights over the four selected companies. The New Khan Trans port Co., Khawaja Transport Co., and Tariq Transport Co., have also appealed that it is un-economic to run a transport service over such a long route with one `B' part and have prayed that they may be granted an additional `B' part in the public interest. In this single order I shall dispose of all the nine appeals.   I will make a few general observations before dealing with the Individual appeals.The Lyallpur-Leiah route is a 167 mile inter-regional route with 2/3rd mileage lying in the Lahore and 1/3rd in the Multan regions. The traffic requirements of the route, I am informed, were assessed at six `B' parts and on this basis, 4 `B' parts were to be granted by the Lahore and two by the Multan, Regional Transport Authorities.   I have already in my order dated 11-12-1961, in R. O. A. M. No. 123 of 1960-61,laid down the principle that in the case of long routes of this nature, a minimum of 2 `B' parts should be granted to individual operators not only as an economic unit, but also to enable them to serve the traveling public efficiently. In that order I deprecated the practice, sometimes followed,…