IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.174 of 2008 Jawahar Thakur, S/O Late Sheo Pujan Thakur, R/O At+P.O. Geedha, P.S. Koilwar, District- Bhojpur ………….. Petitioner Versus 1.The State Of Bihar 2.The Secretary, Human Resources Development Department, Bihar, Patna 3.The Joint Secretary, Department of HRD Govt. of Bihar, Patna 4.The D.E.O., Bhojpur, District- Bhojpur 5.The D.S.E. Bhojpur, District- Bhojpur 6.The B.E.E.O. Koilwar Block, District- Bhojpur 7.The Headmaster, Girls Primary School, Geedha, Koilwar, District- Bhojpur 8.The Director, Primary Education, H.R.D. Department, Govt. of Bihar, Patna ……………… Respondents ----------- 2. 25/08/2010 Learned counsel for the petitioner is permitted to add the Director, Primary Education as party respondent in this writ application in course of the day. Challenge in this writ application by the petitioner is to a communicated dated 12.3.2007 under the signature of respondent Joint Secretary, Department of HRD, Government of Bihar, as contained in Annexure-1, by which his claim for approval of his services and for payment of salary has been refused on the ground that the school has not been taken over nor the services of the petitioner has been taken over. Learned counsel for the petitioner 2 refers to numerous documents annexed with the writ application to contend that the school was recognized and several recommendations were made to the authorities from time to time for sanction of fund and approval of services of the petitioner. He submits that petitioner is still functioning in the school although after 1981 he was not allowed to mark his attendance on the Register exclusively meant for Government Teachers. Still petitioner continued in the school by marking his attendance on separate Attendance Register. Various documents and evidences of functioning of petitioner in the school and the status of the school, as relied upon by petitioner, require a detailed examination by the authorities. Therefore, this writ application is disposed of with liberty to the petitioner to file a representation before the respondent Director, Primary Education enclosing all documents available to him to establish his claim. If such a representation is filed within one month from today, respondent Director, Primary Education shall consider 3 the same, if necessary, give personal hearing to the petitioner, and decide his claim in accordance with law preferably within a period of three months thereafter. Pradeep/ ( J. N. Singh,J.)