IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.13948 of 2007 Punam Smirti, Wife of Sanjeev Kumar, Resident of Village and P.O. Tilak Tajpur, P.S. Runi Saidpur, District Sitamarhi. ------ Petitioner Versus 1. The State of Bihar. 2. Director, Directorate of Social Welfare, Bihar Old Secretariat, Patna. 3. Commissioner, Sitamarhi. 4. District Magistrate, Sitamarhi. 5. Sub-Divisional Magistrate, Sitamarhi. 6. District Welfare Officer, Sitamarhi. 7. District Panchayat Raj Officer, Sitamarhi. 8. Child Development Project Officer, Runi Saidpur, District Sitamarhi. 9. Block Development Officer, Runisaidpur Block, Sitamarhi. 10. Chanchala Kumari, Mukhiya, Wife of Dinesh Singh, Resident of Tilak Tajpur, P.S. Runisaidpur, District Sitamarhi. 11. Panchayat Sachif (Panchayat Sweak) Gram Panchayat Tilak Tajpur, P.S. Runisaidpur, District Sitamarhi. 12. Geeta Devi, Ward Member, Wife of Ratneshwar Singh, Resident of Tilak Tajpur, P.S. Runisaidpur, District Sitamarhi. 13. Puja Kumar, Wife of Late Rakesh Kumar Singh, Resident of Village Tilak Tajpur, P.S. Runisaidpur, District Sitamarhi. ------- 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 is an application for issuance of an appropriate writ or direction commanding the respondents to appoint the petitioner as Aaganbari Sevika under Runisaidpur Gram Panchayat District Sitamarhi as they have appointed Respondent No.13 without giving any legal notice nor information of Aam Sabha of Gram Panchayat to the villagers 2 concerned and for a further direction of any other consequential relief which this Hon’ble Court may deem fit and proper under the circumstances of the case including quashing of appointment of Respondent No.12.” With reference to the aforementioned relief, counsel for the petitioner would submit that representation for the same relief was filed by the petitioner before the Collector of Sitamarhi 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 Sitamarhi District to dispose of the representation of the petitioner as contained in Annexure-4 by a reasoned order within the time frame now 3 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. 13 as also representative of concerned gram panchayat. In order to expedite the matter, this court would also direct the petitioner to 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.)