HIGH COURT OF UTTARANCHAL AT NAINITAL Writ Petition No. 284 of 2006 (SS) Km. Meena Arya D/O Sri L.R. Arya Senior Clerk District Panchayat Raj office, Udham Singh Nagar .............. Petitioner Versus 1. Director Panchayat Raj Uttaranchal 2. District Panchayat Raj Officer, Udham Singh Nagar ............ Respondents Sri Manoj Tiwari, Advocate for the petitioner Standing Counsel for the respondents. Dated: 4.3.2006 Hon’ble Rajesh Tandon J. Heard Sri Manoj Tiwari, counsel for the petitioner and Standing Counsel for the respondents. By the present writ petition, the petitioner has prayed for a writ of mandamus direction the respondents to consider the promotion of the petitioner to the post of Senior Clerk from the date of which the petitioner became eligible for promotion. According to the petitioner she was appointed as Junior Clerk cum Typist in the District Panchayat Raj Office on 19.2.1997. The petitioner has submitted that one Sri Umed Singh Dangi was appointed as Junior Account Clerk in that office while there is no such post. However, he was promoted to the post of Accounts Clerk in May 2001, ignoring the seniority of the petitioner. The petitioner was promoted to the post of Senior Assistant in the scale of 4000-6000 vide order dated 16.12.2002 with effect from 1.6.2001. However, she has not been paid arrears of salary from 1.6.2001 to 16.12.2002. The petitioner has further submitted that she belongs to Scheduled Caste and is entitled to reservation in promotion. The petitioner has submitted that she filed several representation before the authorities concerned claiming her dues but no heed was paid by the authorities on her representations. In view of above, liberty is given to the petitioner to file a fresh representation to appropriate authority within 15 days after obtaining certified copy of this judgment, which shall be decided within a period of six weeks thereafter. Subject to the observations made above, the writ petition is disposed of. No order as to costs. Dated: 4.3.2006 Rajesh Tandon, J. *Dhayani