IN THE HIGH COURT OF UTTARANCHAL AT NAINITAL Civil Writ Petition No. 1636 of 2006 (S/S) Smt. Asha Pant W/o Sri Ganesh Dutt Pant R/o Pant Niwas, H.No. 58, Rai Band, Dharchula Road, District Pithoragarh (Uttaranchal). …….…….. Petitioner Versus 1. State of Uttaranchal. through Secretary Basic Education, 2. Director Vidyalayi Siksha, Uttaranchal at Dehradun. 3. District Education Officer, Pithoragarh. 4. Addl. District Education Officer (Basic) Pithoragarh. ……….. Respondents Mr. B.S. Adhikari, Advocate for the petitioner. Mr. Paresh Tripathi, learned Standing Counsel for the State. Hon’ble Prafulla C. Pant, J Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned Standing Counsel for the State. 2) By mean of this writ petition, the petition has sought mandamus directing the respondents to transfer her in a vacant post of Head Mistress in Kanya Purva Madhyamik Vidyalaya, Bishan (Bin), District Pithoragarh. 3) Learned counsel for the parties agree that the writ petition may be disposed of summarily with the direction to the concerned authority to dispose of the representation made by the petitioner, in the matter. 4) Learned counsel for the petitioner argued that the petitioner who is a lady teacher (now Head Mistress) had been working for last 20 years in DURGAM / ATI DURGAM, places, and due to illness she has sought her transfer to aforesaid school, where the post is lying vacant. 5) In the circumstances, this writ petition is disposed of summarily with the direction that the representation dated 13.12.2006 (copy Annexure –5 to the writ petition) made by the petition, shall be disposed of by respondent No. 4, within a period of one month from the date the certified copy of this Order is produced, before the said authority. (Prafulla C. Pant, J.) Dt.: December 21, 2006 H.Negi