IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.1500 of 2011 Renu Kumari, D/o Sudarshan Mishra, resident of village Rampur, P.O.Bhagwanpur, District Siwan----------------------------------petitioner Versus 1.The State of Bihar 2.The Secretary, Human Resources Development Department, Bihar, Patna 3.The District Superintendent of Education, Siwan----------respondents ----------- For the petitioner :Mr.Prabhakar Nath Rai, Advocate For the State :Mr.Anirudh Mishra, AC to G.P.13 ----- 2. 05.8.2011 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned counsel for the State. The petitioner seeks a direction on the respondent authorities to appoint her on compassionate ground. The petitioner’s mother, who was a Government servant, died in harness on 18.10.1980. The petitioner applied for appointment on compassionate ground on 10.9.1991, which was recommended by the Principal of the Government school, in question, on 19.10.1991. The admitted position is that the petitioner was aged about 10 years at the time of death of her mother. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the claim of the petitioner has not yet been considered till date. On the other hand, in the counter affidavit the stand taken is that the petitioner’s application for appointment on 2 compassionate ground was rejected by the District Compassionate Committee on 19.7.1989 on the ground of being time barred claim. Again another application of the petitioner for compassionate appointment was filed before the District Compassionate Committee on 18.5.1999 and the same was also rejected. On a consideration of the facts and circumstances of the case, it is evident that no such relief has been claimed by the petitioner with respect to death of her mother in the year 1980 and she applied for the same after a lapse of so many years. The petitioner was a minor at the time of death of her mother and did not reach the age of majority at least until eight years thereafter. The whole purpose for grant of compassionate appointment is to relieve the financially distressed family immediately on the death of its sole bread-earner. If a dependant can manage to survive for a period of eight years after the death of the deceased Government servant there is no justification for grant of compassionate appointment thereafter. Now after thirty years of death it would be preposterous to do so. The law has been settled by the Apex Court in this regard in the 3 case of Umesh Kumar Nagpal vs. State of Haryana & Ors.: (1994) 4 SCC 138. In the aforesaid view of the matter, the writ application is dismissed. (Ramesh Kumar Datta,J.) Spal/