(1) The Market Committee shall in case of allotment of a site, shop, godown, or shop-cum-godown under rule 3 or 13 consider the case of each applicant on merits and shall consider the following principles in making selection for allotment under rule 3 or 13, namely:-
(i) The status of the applicant i.e., whether an individual, Joint family or a Partnership firm.
(ii) The number of years the licensed market functionary has been waiting for the allotment and his inability to get in spite of being eligible in his previous attempts.
(iii) The total market fee paid during the previous three years and the average market fee paid in year.
(2) At the time of making allotment, if sufficient numbers of applications are not received from the licensed market functionaries, the Market Committee may relax the above conditions with the previous approval of the Director of Agricultural Marketing.
(3) The Secretary of the Market Committee shall make a list of applicants and shall within seven days from the last date specified for receipt of applications, cause to publish such list on the notice board of the Market Committee.
(4) A Seniority list of the applicants shall be prepared in Form IX consisting of the names of applicants, attempts they made for allotment, three years average market fee paid by them and the following criteria shall be considered for preparing the list and the highest points secured by the applicants shall be the order of seniority.
(i) Each continuous completed year of license shall be considered as two points.
(ii) Each attempt made by the applicant for allotment shall be considered as two points.
(iv) Each unit of one thousand rupees of average market fee paid by the applicant shall be considered as one point and the fraction of less than one thousand rupees shall be ignored for computation of points.