IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.14090 of 2007 Bindu Devi, Wife of Krishna Kant Jha, Resident of Village and P.O. Uphardaha, Gram Panchayat Shivram, P.S. Bahera, District Darbhanga. ------- Petitioner Versus 1. The State of Bihar through its Commissioner-cum-Secretary to Social Welfare Department, Govt. of Bihar, Patna. 2. The Director, I.C.D.S., Bihar, Patna. 3. The District Magistrate, Darbhanga. 4. The Deputy District Commissioner, Darbhanga. 5. The District Welfare Officer, Darbhanga. 6. The Block Development Officer, Benipur, Darbhanga. 7. The Child Development Project Officer, Benipur, Darbhanga. 8. The Mukhiya, Gram Panchayat-Shivram, P.S. Bahera, District Darbhanga. -------- 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. That petitioner prays for issuance of appropriate writ/Son of Sri direction/s and order/s for commanding and directing the concerned respondents to issue Joining letter to the petitioner to join and start the work on the post of “Anganwari Sevika” at Centre no.-134 at village- Uphardaha in Gram Panchayat- Shivram in the light of unanimous due selection of petitioner on merit in Aam Sabha of Gram Panchayat held on 23.3.2005 without any further delay and to provide proper training as per Govt.’s Rule like other similarly situated 2 candidates and further to give entire consequential monetary benefit w.e.f. the date when other similarly situated candidates were allowed to join the post on the basis of same selection list dated 23.3.2005 (Annexure-1) as also to hold proper enquiry and to take follow-up legal action against the erring officials who are found guilty for dereliction of their duties and for causing irreparable loss to the petitioner for no valid reasons/justification under the law and further to give such relief/s including payment of heavy compensation and lost for which petitioner is found entitled in the given facts and circumstances of the case.” 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 Darbhanga 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 3 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 Darbhanga District to dispose of the representations of the petitioner as contained in Annexure-3 Series by a reasoned order within the time 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 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 representation before the Collector of the district. With the aforementioned observations and directions, this writ application is disposed of. Rsh (Mihir Kumar Jha, J.)