IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.13289 of 2009 SMT.RESHMA DEVI Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR & ORS ----------- 2. 13.10.2009 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and the State. The services of the petitioner as Anganbari Sevika has been terminated by the District Programme Officer on 10.9.2009 after issuance of a show cause notice dated 25.6.2009 and consideration of the cause shown vide Annexure-3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the impugned order does not reflect adequate consideration of the cause shown. The State Government by appropriate modification of 2006 circular regulating appointment of Anganbari Sevika as amended in 2008 has vested powers of termination in the District Programme Officer against which appeal lies before the District Magistrate under clause 12 of the instructions. In that view of the matter, the writ petition is not maintainable. It is, accordingly, disposed off with observation that if so advised, the petitioner may prefer an appeal before the District Magistrate within a period of 30 days and only in that event the District Magistrate is required to dispose it of by a reasoned and speaking order preferably within a period of three months after hearing all concerned. AKS/ (Navin Sinha, J.)