IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.13108 of 2007 FATMA KHATOON w/o Akhlaqur Rahman r/o village- Rasoolpur, P. S. Hayaghat, District Darbhanga. Petitioner Versus 1. THE STATE OF BIHAR 2. Director Social Welfare Department (Director of Integrated Child Development Service Scheme), Bihar, Patna. 3. District Magistrate, Darbhanga. 4. Deputy Development Commissioner, Darbhanga. 5. District Welfare Officer, Darbhanga. 6. Child Development Project Officer, Darbhanga. 7. Pankaj Paswan, Mukhia, Gram Panchayat Raj, Rasoolpur, Block- Hayaghat, District Darbhanga. 8. Faiz Bali, Panchayat Sachiva, Gram Panchayat Raj, Rasoolpur, Block- Hayaghat, District Darbhanga. 9. Hashmant Jahan w/o Md. Shabbir, d/o Md. Alam, r/o village- Rasoolpur, P. S. Hayaghat, District Darbhanga. … Respondents. ----------- 2. 18.12.2009. Heard counsel for the petitioner and counsel for the State. The prayer of petitioner in this writ application reads as follows:- “1. That this petition is directed for issuance of an appropriate writ, order or direction to the respondents to appoint the petitioner on the post of Anganbari Sevika in preference to respondent no. 8 in view of the following facts and circumstances of the case.” With reference to the aforementioned relief, counsel for the petitioner would submit that a representation for the same relief was filed by the petitioner before the 2 Collector of Darbhanga district but no order has been passed thereon till date. In the opinion of this court, once the Government has provided in the scheme for appointment on the post of Anganbari Sevika that any issue relating to selection/appointment on the post of Anganbari Sevika in the first instance has to be looked into and decided by the Collector of the District, the representation filed by the petitioner for this purpose ought to have been disposed of. That having not been done, this court would direct the Collector of Darbhanga District to dispose of the representation of the petitioner as contained in Annexure-4 by a reasoned order within the time frame now prescribed by the State Government in the latest Circular dated 10.12.2009, of course after affording opportunity of hearing to the petitioner, respondent no. 9 as also representative of concerned gram panchayat. In order to expedite the matter, this court would also direct the petitioner to produce this order along with a copy of her earlier representation before the 3 Collector of the district. With the aforementioned observations and directions, this writ application is disposed of. kanchan (Mihir Kumar Jha, J.)