WP(C) 4246/2009 BEFORE HON’BLE MRS. JUSTICE ANIMA HAZARIKA Heard Mr.A.M.Mazumdar learned senior counsel assisted by Mrs.K.Devi Advocate app earing for the petitioners. Also heard Mr.H.Rahman learned State Counsel appeari ng for the respondents. Considering the grievance raised in the writ petition and as agreed to b y the learned counsel appearing for the parties this writ petition is disposed o f at the motion stage itself. The petitioners belonging to Scheduled Tribe(Plains) community are resi dent of Majuli Sub-Division of Jorhat District, which is one of the flood af fected remote areas of Assam. The Principal Secretary to the Government of Assa m, Social Welfare Department vide letter dated 27.7.2009(Annexure-1) conveyed ap proval of the Governor regarding sanction of large number of Anganwadi Centres in the State including Majuli and upper Majuli ICDS Project but subsequentl y on 4.9.2009 the Director of Social Welfare , Assam has sought for modific ation/ alteration of the Anganwadi Centres, more particularly in respect of M ajuli and upper Majuli ICDS projects contrary to the guidelines issued by the Go vernment of India from time to time and ignoring the requirement of the locality . Aggrieved by the aforesaid action of the respondent no.4 i.e. Director of Soc ial Welfare Department, Assam the petitioners herein submitted representation on 8.9.2009 before the State authority which are annexed as Annexure-3 series to t he instant writ petition. However, the same have evoked no response. Hence aggri eved thereby the petitioners have filed the instant writ petition with a limited prayer for a direction to the respondent authority to dispose of the representa tion/appeal submitted by the petitioners within time frame. Admittedly several r epresentations have been filed before the respondent authority, which have not b een disposed of till date. In view of the limited prayer so made, the writ petition is disposed of with direction to the petitioners to submit a representation within ten (10) da ys from today before the respondent No.1 i.e. Principal Secretary to the Governm ent of Assam, Social Welfare Department, Dispur ventilating their grievance ther ein, with a further direction to respondent no.1to dispose of the said represent ation by a speaking order within a period of ten (10) days from the date of rece ipt of the representation so submitted by the petitioners. Till disposal of the representation, status-quo as on today with regard to Anganwadi Worker Centres in respect of Majuli and Upper Majuli ICDS Project shall be maintained. The petitioners shall also submit a certified copy of this order alongwi th a copy of the writ petition before respondent no.1 for doing the needful.