IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.13916 of 2007 Julee Devi Alias Julee Kumari, Wife of Sri Tarkeshwar Prasad Gupta, Resident of Nonia Patti, Ward No.15, Gaushala Road, Naugachia, P.O. & P.S. Naugachia, Distt. Bhagalpur. -------- Petitioner Versus 1. The State of Bihar. 2. The Secretary, Rural Development Department, Bihar, Patna 1. 3. The Secretary, Welfare Department, Bihar, Patna. 4. The Divisional Commissioner, Bhagalpur Division, Bhagalpur. 5. The Collector, Bhagalpur. 6. Sub Divisional Officer, Bhagalpur. 7. District Welfare Officer, Bhagalpur. 8. Child Development Project Officer, Naugachia, Distt. Bhagalpur. 9. Executive Officer, Nagar Panchayat, Naugachia, District Bhagalpur. 10. Gauri Devi, Wife of Sri Ram Awadhesh Gupta, Resident of Gaushala Road, Naugachia, P.O. & P.S. Naugachia, District Bhagalpur. ------- 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(I) Issuance of an appropriate Writ/Writs/Order/Orders/directi on /directions commanding the respondent authorities to cancel the selection of respondent no.10 namely Gauri Devi who has wrongly and illegally been selected to the post of Aaganbari Sevika in Ward No.15 of Nagar Panchayat, Naugachia District Bhagalpur vide Order dated 13/4/2007 and 16/8/2007 contained in Annexure-3 Series. 2 (II) Issuance of an appropriate Writ/Writs/Order/Orders/directi on /directions commanding the respondent to Select the petitioner to the Post of Gram Sevika in Ward No.15 in which her name is at Serial No.1.” With reference to the aforementioned relief, counsel for the petitioner would submit that several representations for the same relief were filed by the petitioner before the Collector of Bhagalpur 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 representations 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 Bhagalpur District to dispose of the representation of the petitioner as contained in Annexure-5 Series by a reasoned order within the time 3 frame now 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. 10 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 representations before the Collector of the district. With the aforementioned observations and directions, this writ application is disposed of. Rsh (Mihir Kumar Jha, J.)