WP(C) 3595/2010 BEFORE HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE B.K. SHARMA . Heard Mr. B. Buragohain, learned counsel for the petitioner as well as M s R. Chakraborty, learned Addl. Sr. Govt. Advocate, Assam. By means of this writ petition, the petitioner has prayed for a direction to the respondents to consider his case for appointment on compassionate ground. The prayer so made is on account of death of his mother on 20.12.1992 and the father on 17.4.1997 while they were in service. As per own statement of the petitione r, at the time of death of his parents, he was only 7 years and 12 years of age . Under the scheme for compassionate appointment, such a case is considered for pr oviding immediate financial assistance to the family in need. The scheme is not to show unlimited compassion. If the parents of the petitioner died wayback in 1992 and 1997 and the petitioner could survive even during his minority, there i s no question of consideration of his case for such appointment after so many ye ars. As has been held by the Apex Court in Sanjay Kumar Singh v. State of Bihar , reported in (2000) 7 SCC 192, there cannot be any reservation of post for comp assionate appointment for a minor till such time, he attains majority. The petitioner having survived for all these years, naturally, a presumption wil l be drawn that the petitioner has sufficient needs for his survival and there i s no need for compassionate appointment. For all these reasons, I do not find any merit in the writ petition and accordin gly, it is dismissed.