IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.926 of 2002 RANJANA GANGULI, W/O TAPAN MUKHERJEE, R/O KOYALA GHAT ROAD CHOTI KHANJARPUR, P.S.- KOTWALI, DISTRICT-BHAGALPUR. …………PETITIONER. Versus 1. THE STATE OF BIHAR. 2. THE COMMISSIONER-CUM-SECRETARY, DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, HUMAN RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT, GOVERNMENT OF BIHAR, OLD SECRETARIAT, PATNA. 3. THE DIRECTOR, HIGHER EDUCATION, GOVERNMENT OF BIHAR, OLD SECRETARIAT, PATNA. 4. TILKA MANJHI BHAGALPUR UNIVERSITY BHAGALPUR THROGH ITS VICE-CHANCELLOR. 5. THE VICE-CHANCELLOR, BHAGALPUR UNIVERSITY, BHAGALPUR. 6. THE REGISTRAR, BHAGALPUR UNIVERSITY, BHAGALPUR. ………………RESPONDENTS. ----------- 5 07.04.2010 Petitioner was initially appointed on daily wages in Women’s Degree College, Bhagalpur in 1981. She is continued in service and thereafter admittedly she was regularized along with several other class-IV employees by the University by order dated 27.5.2006, as contained in Annexure-B, with effect from 5.6.2003. Now the petitioner cites some example of regularization of Class-III employees of T.N.B. College who were regularized from their initial date of appointment. The names of such employees are mentioned in Annexure-D to the second supplementary counter affidavit filed on behalf of the respondent University. It is 2 contended that the University is not following a uniformity practice in regularization of employees and their dates of regularization are fixed differently by the University. It is submitted that if the similarly situated other employees, may be working in other colleges, have been regularized pursuant to the same examination and interview with effect from their initial date of appointment, the other employees who were also regularized pursuant to the same examination and interview were also required to be regularized from their initial date of appointment. It is rightly contended by learned counsel for the petitioner that the University is requited to follow a uniformity practice in the matter of regularization of employees made in the same transaction and any differential treatment will obviously be discriminatory and arbitrary. Since the petitioner has already been regularized and dispute is only with regard to the effective date of her regularization, the University is directed to consider the matter and adopt a uniformity policy in respect of effective date of regularization of the 3 incumbents who were regularized pursuant to the same examination and interview and in same transaction. The University will examine the matter and take decision preferably within a period of three months from the date of receipt/production of a copy of this order. The writ application is disposed of with the aforesaid observations and directions. Arvind/ (J. N. Singh, J.)