IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Civil Writ Jurisdiction Case No.3760 of 2011 Diwali Choudhary , s/o Late Charitar Choudhary, resident of village- Kothiya, P.O. Kothiya, District- Patna at present working as Assistant Teacher, Primary School, Aluddin Chak, Anchal- Poonpoon, District- Patna…………….. Petitioner Versus 1.The State Of Bihar 2. The District Superintendent of Education, Patna. 3. The District Programme Officer (Establishment), Patna. …………………. Respondents ---------------------------------- 2. 20.12.2011 Learned counsel for the petitioner is permitted to add the District Programme Officer, (Establishment) Patna as party respondent No.3 to the writ petition in the course of the day. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned counsel for the State. The writ application has been filed by the petitioner claiming grant of trained Graduate Scale with effect from 1.4.1986 and for subsequent promotion as Headmaster in the Elementary School on the ground that similarly situated persons were duly considered and promoted to their respective posts but the same has been denied to him. The petitioner claims to have been appointed as Assistant teacher on 1.7.1971 and superannuated from 2 service on 31.12.2002. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the dispute with regard to the preparation of seniority list whether common or separate for Arts and Science teachers has been going on for a long time since early 1990 and directions were given by the Court in different decisions from time to time. Ultimately, the matter was referred to a Full Bench. The Full Bench of this Court has disposed of the matter by order dated 21.4.2009 in the case of Ram Nath Prasad Singh .vs. The State of Bihar & others and its analogous cases: 2009 (3) PLJR 284 (F.B.). It is urged by learned counsel for the petitioner that now the issue has been finally settled by a Full Bench of this Court and after more than two decades, the petitioner should be given at least the financial benefits which he would have been entitled at the relevant time while still in service. It is also submitted that the petitioner has filed his representation before the District Superintendent of Education, Patna on 11.10.2010, but the same is still pending. 3 In the facts and circumstances of the case, the writ application is disposed of with a direction to the petitioner to file a representation with all details before the District Programme Officer (Establishment), Patna along with a copy of this order within four weeks from today who shall consider and dispose of the same by passing a speaking order within a further period of four months from the date of filing of the said representation, keeping in view the directions given by the Full Bench of this Court in the case of Ram Nath Prasad (supra). VPS ( Ramesh Kumar Datta, J.)