New Delhi, July 18 (IANS) The Supreme court Wednesday decided to hold hearing on the presidential reference to answer whether all natural resources other than the telecom spectrum could be allocated only through auction.

After a five-day-long hearing on the maintainability of the reference, the apex court constitution bench said while answering the reference it would also decide the question of its maintainability.

The court asked Attorney General G.E. Vahanvati to commence Thursday his arguments on the merits of presidential reference.