IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.17188 of 2007 KUMARI SONALIKA, W/O Manoj Kumar, Mohalla Korbaddha, Ward No.1, P.S. Samastipur (M) District Samastipur. Versus 1.THE STATE OF BIHAR 2.The Home Secretary, Govt. of Bihar, Patna. 3.The Secretary, Social Welfare Department Govt. of Bihar, Patna. 4.The Director, Samaj Kalyan, Patna. 5.The District Welfare Officer, Samastipur. 6.The C.D.P.O. Samastipur. 7.Asharfi Sahani (MUKHIYA) S/o Late Ramautar Sahni, Resident of village and Panchayat, laguniya Surya kanth, P.S. Samastipur (M) District Samastipur. 8.Ranju Kumari W/O Hemant Kumar Resident of village Chak Pahar, P.S. Tajpur Distt. Samastipur, at present R/V Korbaddha P.S. Samastipur (M) District Samastipur. ----------- 2 18/12/2009 Heard counsel for the petitioner and counsel for the State. The prayer of the petitioner in this writ application reads as follows:- “That this is an application for issuance of an appropriate writ, order, direction for quashing the selection of Respondent no.9 for the post of Angan Bari Sevika of the Anganbari Centre Bar Mashi Ram Tole of Gram Panchayat Raj lagunia Surya kanth District Samastipur and to select the petitioner as the selection of Respondent no.9 has been made against the guidelines of the State Government issued time to time and petitioners most suitability has been denied by the respondent authorities for selection of the Sevika in their arbitrary manner and for direction to cal a fresh meeting for selection of the Anganbari Sevika of the Centre in question.” 2 With reference to the aforementioned relief, counsel for the petitioner would submit that a representation for the same relief was filed by the petitioner before the Collector of Samastipur 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 representation 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 Samastipur District to dispose of the representation of the petitioner as contained in Annexure-5 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, respondent no.9 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. 3 With the aforementioned observations and directions this writ application is disposed of. Abhay Kumar (Mihir Kumar Jha, J.)