IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.1544 of 2009 VIBHA SHARMA, D/o Shri Gobardhan Prasad Sharma, Wife of Shri Santosh Sharma, resident of village-Chihuta, P.O.-Benibigha, P.S.-Bikram, District-Patna, at present posted and working as Panchayat Teacher in govt. primary school Chihuta, Anchal-Bikram, District-Patna. ..............Petitioner. Versus 1. The State of Bihar. 2. The Principal Secretary, Human Resources Development Department, Government of Bihar, Patna. 3. The Director, Primary Education, Bihar, Patna. 4. The Divisional Commissioner, Patna Division, Patna. 5. The District Magistrate, Patna. 6. The Deputy Development Commissioner-cum-Chairman, the District Education Establishment Committee, Patna. 7. The District Superintendent of Education, Patna. 8. The Block Development Officer, Bikram, District-Patna. 9. The Block Education Extension Officer, Bikram-II, District-Patna. 10. The Mukhiya Gram Panchayat Raj Benibigha, Anchal-Bikram, District- Patna. 11. The Panchayat Secretary, Gram Panchayat Raj Benibigha, Anchal- Bikram, District-Patna. ...........Respondents. Counsel for the Petitioner : Mr. Umesh Kumar Mishra, Adv. Counsel for the State : S.C.-III. ----------- 2/ 25.03.2010 Heard counsel for the petitioner and the counsel appearing for the State. Petitioner was appointed as Panchayat Shiksha Mitra and subsequently absorbed on the post of Panchayat Teacher. Her grievance is that though continuously discharging duties to the post of Panchayat Teacher, for no reason her payment and salary has been stopped since 05.07.2007 till the date of filing of the writ application. Supplementary affidavit has been filed by the petitioner in order to bring the development, on the record of the case, which has taken place during pendency of the writ - 2 - application. In para 2 of the supplementary affidavit, it is stated that during the pendency of the writ application, the respondent authorities have made payment of arrears of salary for period 5th July, 2007 to September, 2007 and also for the period 09.08.2008 to February, 2010. Petitioner has also being paid her current salary. Only period, for which payment has not been made, is in between 20th September, 2007 to 08.08.2008. Considering the fact that petitioner is continuously working which is apparent from the report submitted by the Headmaster of the school and payment of arrears of salary as well as current salary has been made to the petitioner, there is no reason for not making payment for a period in between, i.e. 20th September, 2007 to 08.08.2008. Accordingly, this application is being disposed of directing the Block Education Extension Officer, Bikram-II, District-Patna, Mukhiya, Gram Panchayat Raj Benibigha and the Panchayat Secretary of same gram panchayat, for making payment of arrears of salary for the period 20th September, 2007 to 08.08.2008 to the petitioner. In the same manner, it has been paid to the petitioner for other periods. The remaining payments must be paid to the petitioner within six weeks from the date of production/communication of this order. Sanjeet/ (Mridula Mishra, J.)