IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Civil Writ Jurisdiction Case No.8157 of 2008 Ram Pukar Rai, son of Deoki Rai, Clerk-cum- Assistant Teacher of High School, Sondho (Muzaffarpur), resident of village & Post Sondho, District- Muzaffarpur. ………… Petitioner Versus 1.The State Of Bihar through the Secretary, Department of Secondary Education, Govt. of Bihar, Patna 2.The Director, Secondary Education, Bihar, Patna 3.Regional Deputy Director of Education, Tirhut Division, Muzaffarpur 4.District Education Officer, Vaishali 5.Sub-Divisional Education Officer, Vaishali. ………… Respondents ---------------------------------- 3. 11/08/2011 In this writ application, petitioner has prayed for a direction to the respondents to recognize him as Graduate Trained Assistant Teacher and fix his pay scale as such with effect from the date he acquired the qualification of training, i.e., 17.4.1995, with consequential benefits of arrears etc. Learned counsel for the petitioner refers to two letters of the District Education Officer addressed to the Director as well as Deputy Director of the Department, as contained in Annexures-4 and 5, to submit that the case of the petitioner was recommended to the Department for grant of such scale. He has also drawn the 2 attention of this Court to a representation filed by the petitioner, as contained in Annexure-10, addressed to the Director, Secondary Education dated 7.1.2006. Writ application was filed on 16.5.2008 with service of two copies of the same in the office of learned Advocate General. However, till today, no counter affidavit has been filed. In the circumstances, this writ application is disposed of with a direction to the Director, Secondary Education to consider the representation of the petitioner, examine his entitlement for the said promotion and scale from the date claimed by him and pass appropriate orders in accordance with law, preferably within a period of three months from the date of receipt/production of a copy of this order. Pradeep/ ( J. N. Singh,J.)