IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.14131 of 2007 Mamta Kumari, Wife of Rajesh Kumar, Resident of Village Biswari Rahi Tola P.O. Gwalpara, P.S. Gwalpara, District Madhepura. -------- Petitioner Versus 1. The State of Bihar. 2. The Collector, Madhepura. 3. The District Welfare Officer, Madhepura. 4. The Child Development Project Officer, Gwalpara, Madhepura. 5. The Mukhiya, Biswari Gram Panchayat, Gwal Para, Madhepura. 6. The Panchyat Sachiv, Biswari Gram Panchayat, Gwalpara, Madhepura. 7. Sangita Devi, Wife of Manoj Kumar Yadav, Resident of Village Biswari School Tola, P.O. Gwalpara, P.S. Gwalpara, District Madhepura. ---------- Respondents ----------- 2 18.12.2009 Heard counsel for the petitioner and counsel for the State. The prayer of petitioner in this writ application reads as follows:- “1. That this writ application is being filed for issuance of direction/directions, order/ orders commanding upon the concerning respondents to select the petitioner on the post of Sevika under the Anganbari Project for the Centre Jai Krishna Mandal Tola in Ward No.2 under the Biswari Gram Panchayat removing the respondent No.4, 5 & 6 for the same Post and Centre ignoring the norms and Condition of Selection.” With reference to the aforementioned relief, counsel for the petitioner would submit 2 that representation for the same relief was filed by the petitioner before the Collector of Madhepura district but no order has been passed thereon till date. In the opinion of this court, once the Government has provided in the scheme for appointment on the post of Anganbari Sevika that any issue relating to selection/appointment on the post of Anganbari Sevika in the first instance has to be looked into and decided by the Collector of the District, the representation filed by the petitioner for this purpose ought to have been disposed of. That having not been done, this court would direct the Collector of Madhepura District to dispose of the representation of the petitioner as contained in Annexure-4 by a reasoned order within the time frame now prescribed by the State Government in the latest Circular dated 10.12.2009, of course after affording opportunity of hearing to the petitioner, respondent no. 7 as also representative of concerned gram panchayat. In order to expedite the matter, this court would also direct the petitioner to 3 produce this order along with a copy of her earlier representation before the Collector of the district. With the aforementioned observations and directions, this writ application is disposed of. Rsh (Mihir Kumar Jha, J.)