IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.15874 of 2007 Smt. Chanda Devi, W/o Rajesh Patel, Resident of Jay Mangalapur, P.S. Sikarpur, District West Champaran. --------- Petitioner Versus 1. The State of Bihar. 2. The District Magistrate, West Champaran. 3. The Sub-Divisional Officer, Narkatiyaganj. 4. The District Welfare Officer, West Champaran. 5. The Block Development Officer, Narkatiyaganj. 6. The Child Development Project Officer, Narkatiyaganj. 7. The Mukhiya Sri Ajhar Mian Gram Panchayat Dum Nagar, P.S. Sikarpur, District West Champaran. 8. Meena Devi, W/o Biney Mishra, Resident of Jay Manglapur, P.S. Sikarpur, District West Champaran. ------- 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 is an application is being filed a writ to the nature of mandamus for directing the respondent authority to appoint the petitioner namely Chanda Devi on the post of Anganbari Sevika Kendra Jaymanglapur Ward No.9 and 10 of the Narkatiyaganj Block in the Dhum Nagar Gram Panchayat of the West Champaran District, Where Block development Officer and Child Development Project Officer and Mukhiya gram Panchayat of Dhum Nagar had selected other candidate namely Smt. Meena Devi who is not deserving candidate in the respect of Smt. Chanda 2 Devi. So direction may be given to the Respondent authority appointment of the Meena Devi should be cancelled as her appointment is illegal and Smt. Chanda Devi is more deverving candidate so she may be selected on the post of Anganbari Sevika.” With reference to the aforementioned relief, counsel for the petitioner would submit that representation for the same relief was filed by the petitioner before the Collector of West Champaran 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 West Champaran District to dispose of the representation of the petitioner as contained 3 in Annexure-6 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. 8 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 Collector of the district. With the aforementioned observations and directions, this writ application is disposed of. Rsh (Mihir Kumar Jha, J.)