WP(C) 1198/2009 BEFORE THE HON’BLE MR JUSTICE HRISHIKESH ROY The petitioner, who is serving as a Tax Collector under the Office of Chief Exe cutive Officer, Kamrup Zilla Parishad and is posted at Rani Anchalik Panchayat o n 12.4.96, is aggrieved by non-consideration of his candidature for appointment to the post of Gaon Panchayat Secretary of Dharapur Gaon Panchayat under Rani An chalik Panchayat. It is contended by Mr. J. Chutia, learned counsel for the petitioner that the p ost of Gaon Panchayat Secretary is to be filled up through promotion on the bas is of seniority-cum-merit and although the petitioner is substantially senior to the private respondents in the seniority list published on 27.11.2008, he was wronglyoverlooked at the time of consideration of candidature for promotion to the post of Gaon Panchayat Secretary. It appears from the counter affidavit filed on 4.10.02 by respondent No.2, the D irector of Panchayat and Rural Development Deptt. that when the Selection Commit tee considered the candidatures on 21.11.09, the ACR of the petitioner was not f urnished to the Selection Board and accordingly the petitioner’s case could not be considered at the relevant time. Mr. BJ Ghosh, learned Govt. Advocate produces a copy of the communication dated 24.2.09 of the Chief Executive Officer, Kamrup Zilla Parishad addressed to the C ommissioner , Panchayat and Rural Development Deptt which shows that ACR of the petitioner Manoj Kr. Das has since been forwarded. Accordingly, it is submitted that there is no impediment now for consideration of the candidature of the peti tioner in the next selection exercise. Since the post of the Gaon Panchayat Secretary of the Dharapur Gaon Panchayat has remained vacant because of the interim order passed by this Court on 20.3. 09, it is submitted by the learned counsel for the petitioner that direction be issued to take up the process of appointment to the said vacancy, by considerin g the candidature of the petitioner. Having regard to the above, this case is disposed of by directing the respondent s to initiate steps for filling up the vacancy of Gaon Panchayat Secretary of th e Dharapur Gaon Panchayat on regular basis as per the norms in force. The case o f the petitioner and other eligible candidates be considered in the next promoti on exercise for the concerned vacancy. This Writ Petition is disposed of accordingly.