IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Civil Writ Jurisdiction Case No.1822 of 2008 Smt. Rama Sinha, wife of Sri Arvind Kumar, resident of Village Bhagwanpur Ratti, Balukaram, P.S. Vaishali, Dist. Vaishali, at present working as Assistant Teacher, Government Aided Town Middle School, Hajipur, Dist. Vaishali. --------- Petitioner Versus 1. The State of Bihar. 2. The Director, Primary Education, Government of Bihar, Patna. 3. The District Superintendent of Education, Hajipur, Vaishali. 4. The Area Education Officer, Hajipur, Vaishali. 5. The Managing Committee, Town Middle School, Hajipur, through its Secretary. --------- Respondents ----------------- 6 22.12.2011 No one appears on behalf of the petitioner. Counsel for the State is present. The prayer of the petitioner in this writ application for payment of salary on the basis that she is working in Town Middle School, Hazipur seems to be wholly misconceived, inasmuch as, the said school is a private school in which the Government has limited commitment of granting certain aid to specified number of post as per Staffing Pattern. In fact, the petitioner is the appointee of his Managing Committee of the school and the Managing Committee has reported to the District Superintendent of Education, Vaishali that the there are no document to show with regard to the petitioner working as a Teacher in the said school. 2 The prayer of the petitioner, therefore, in this writ application would be actually seeking a direction to the Managing Committee of the private school, which is not a ‘State’ within the meaning of Article 12 of the Constitution of India. In that view of the matter, this Court would only hold that this writ application is not maintainable and the same is, accordingly, dismissed. Rsh (Mihir Kumar Jha, J.)