IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.11750 of 2000 Narendra Kumar Sinha, Son of Sri Ram Briksh Sinha, Resident of Village-Vehelwara, P.O. Mittan Chak, P.S. Sampatchak, District Patna, at present posted as Project Officer, Non Formal Education, Asthaman, District Nalanda. -------- Petitioner Versus 1. The state of Bihar, through the Secretary-cum-Commissioner, Human Resources Development Department, Government of Bihar, Patna. 2. The Secretary, Secondary, Primary and Adult Education, Government of Bihar, Patna. 3. The Director, Adult Education, Government of Bfihar, Patna. 4. The Joint Director, Adult Education and Non-formal Education, Government of Bihar, Patna. ------- Respondents ----------- 8 3.7.2009 In this writ application, the petitioner has made the prayer for the following effect:- “1. That this is an application for issuance of a writ in the nature of Mandamus or any other appropriate writ, order or direction commanding the respondents to treat the regular service of petitioner as Project Officer from 13.12.1989 and direct the respondents to pay the salary of petitioner from September, 1990 to June, 1992 and December, 1993 to June, 1997 and direct the authorities not to reduce the scale of the Project Officer of the State upon their rejoining. The petitioner also challenge clause-V of the order dated- 26.1.1998 whereby in the case of Project Officers who were made to join in the light of Court orders has been fixed at a pay scale of Rs. 1600- Rs. 2780/- even though the petitioner was getting the scale of Rs. 2000- Rs. 3800/-.” Learned counsel for the petitioner at 2 the outset with reference to the aforesaid relief prayed in this writ application would submit that the petitioner intends to file his self-contained compact representation to the respondent no.2 and will be satisfied if a direction is issued to consider the same by way of its disposal by a reasoned order. Having regard to aforesaid limited submission, this application is disposed of with a direction to the respondent no.2 that if such a compact representation is filed by the petitioner within a period of two months from today, the same must be disposed of in next four months from the date of filing of such a representation by the petitioner. Let it be however made clear that this Court has expressed no opinion on the merits of the claim of the petitioners and therefore it would be open for the Respondents to pass any appropriate order as with regard to an otherwise wholly belated claim for payment of salary from 1989 onwards. That being so, this writ application with the aforesaid observations and directions is disposed of. Rsh (Mihir Kumar Jha, J.)