IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Civil Writ Jurisdiction Case No.15936 of 2011 Shakuntala Devi, wife of Janardhan Choudhary, resident of village – Kachhuhi, P.S. – Piro, District – Bhojpur at Ara ………………….. Petitioner Versus 1. The State Of Bihar 2. The Child Development Project Officer, Piro, Bhojpur 3. The Collector cum District Officer, Bhojpur at Ara 4. The Director, I.C.D.S., Indira Bhawan, Patna ……………….. Respondents ---------------------------------- 02. 11.11.2011 Petitioner claims herself to have been validly appointed on the post of Anganbari Sahayika at Centre Code No. 180 in village-Kachhuhi, Block – Piro in District – Bhojpur. After appointment, she is supposed to have been done her training and has been rendering her service in the Centre, but no payment has been made to her since 23.10.2007. A request to the authorities have also gone unheeded and therefore the Writ Application. Looking at the nature of the dispute and also taking into consideration that the State has not filed any affidavit, explaining their conduct so far, the Writ is disposed off with a direction upon the CDPO, Piro that he will take cognizance of the claim of the petitioner and decide the issue of non-payment within a time frame of three months from the date of production / communication of a copy of this Order. If the claim of the petitioner is found to be genuine, steps will have to be taken for payment within a time frame, indicated above, or the legal and cogent reason thereof will have to be 2 communicated to the petitioner within the same time. Writ is disposed off with above directions. SKM (Ajay Kumar Tripathi, J.)