IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.15902 of 2008 1. MD.ABDUL QUADIR EQBAL, S/O MD. Z.A.MIAN, R/O VILLAGE-PAKARI, P.O.-NAWADA, P.S.- ARRAH TOWN, DISTRICT-BHOJPUR. 2. GHANSHYAM PRASAD, S/O DINESH PRASAD, R/O MOHALLA-BASHISHTHA NAGAR, P.S.-ARRAH TOWN, DISTRICT-BHOJPUR. ……………PETITIONERS. Versus 1. THE STATE OF BIHAR. 2. THE CHIEF MALARIA OFFICER, BIHAR, PATNA. 3. THE DISTRICT MAGISTRATE-CUM-COLLECTOR, BUXAR. 4. THE CIVIL SURGEON-CUM-MEMBER SECRETARY, DISTRICT, HEALTH COMMITTEE, BUXAR. 5. THE DISTRICT MALARIA OFFICER, BUXAR. ……………RESPONDENTS. ----------- 3 19.08.2011 Petitioners have filed this writ application for a direction to the respondents to take work of D.D.T. Sprayers from them. Their case is that they were earlier engaged as D.D.T. Sprayers on seasonal basis and got the experience. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that the State Government had taken a policy decision to engage all the D.D.T. Sprayers, working in the Malaria Eradication Programme, on regular basis. Pursuant to the said policy decision, a list had to be prepared according to seniority and experience and regular appointment had to be made. This exercise had to be done by the District Magistrate with the aid of the District Malaria Officer. It is submitted that in the district of Buxar this has not been done on account of which petitioners have not yet been engaged, although 2 they had sufficient experience and had also got the training. Learned counsel for the State has drawn the attention of this Court to a list of such D.D.T. Sprayers annexed with the writ application as Annexure-3 series in which the names of the petitioners also appear. Be that as it may, this Court is of the view that if there is a policy decision by the Government in operation for absorption or regularization of the seasonal D.D.T. Sprayers working under the Malaria Eradication Programme, the authorities of the district are required to take action in pursuant to the said policy decision. In that case the district authorities are legally obliged to prepare a panel and take steps for regular appointment from the panel as per seniority and in accordance with law. The writ application is disposed of with the aforesaid observations. Arvind/ ( J.N. Singh, J.)