WP(C) 1971/2011 BEFORE HON’BLE MR JUSTICE I A ANSARI Heard Mr. N. Haque, learned counsel for the writ petitioners, and Mr. B. Gogoi, learned Government Advocate, appearing on behalf of the respondents. The petitioners, who claim to have been working as Tax Collectors and Pe on-cum-Chowkidars at different Gaon Panchayats under Hailakandi Zilla Parishad, have filed this writ petition, under Article 226 of the Constitution of India, s eeking appropriate direction to the respondents. According to the petitioners, the revised pay, in respect of the casual workers and ad hoc employees, who have had been working, in the same capacity as the petitioners’, stands enhanced to a fixed pay of Rs. 4,500/- per month. The petitioners have also pointed out tha t the Joint Director, Finance (Economic Affairs) Department, Government of Assam , has issued a letter, on 14.02.2011, to the Deputy Secretary to the Government of Assam, Panchayat and Rural Development Department, with a request to send the detailed list of casual workers, engaged during the period from 01.01.1988 to 0 1.04.1993 and also from 02.04.1993 to 31.03.2006, to the concerned Zilla Parisha d for collection of the bank account numbers, etc., of those employees/workers, for onward transmission to the Government for providing casual employees/worker s with the enhanced fixed pay of Rs. 4,500/- and that, in terms of the direction , dated 14.02.2011, aforementioned, the Joint Director, Panchayat and Rural Deve lopment Department, Government of Assam, sent a list/detail particulars of 43 ca sual employees/workers, who had been engaged between 01.01.1988 and 01.04.1993 a nd also between 02.04.1993 and 31.03.2006 and working at different Gaon Panchaya t, under the Hailakandi Zilla Parishad, to the Chief Executive Officer, Hailaka ndi Zilla Parishad, for onward submission of the same to the Government, but in the said list of 43 numbers of candidates, so forwarded, the names of the petiti oners do not appear, though the petitioner Nos. 2, 10 and 11 herein, were engage d prior to 01.04.1993 and have been working as casual employees/workers in their respective establishments; rather, the names of most of the candidates, who wer e engaged later than the present petitioners, have been enlisted and sent to the Government. Considering the matter in its entirety and in the interest of justice, i t is hereby directed that the respondents, particularly, respondent No. 2, namel y, Commissioner, Panchayat and Rural Development Department, Government of Assam , shall examine, or cause to be examined, the grievances of the petitioners and if they are found to have been working, as claimed by them, their names shall be included in accordance with the requirements, as have been set out by the lette r, dated 14.02.2011, aforementioned. The whole exercise, so directed, shall be completed within a period of two months from the date of receipt of a copy of th is order by the respondent No. 2. Whatever decision(s) is/are reached by the re spondents, the same shall be communicated, in writing, to the petitioners and if any of the petitioners feel aggrieved by the decision(s), which may be taken by the respondents/authorities concerned, the aggrieved petitioner(s) shall remain at liberty to take recourse to such provision of law as may be permissible. The petitioners may furnish to the respondent No. 2, namely, Commissione r, Panchayat and Rural Development Department, Government of Assam, a certified copy of this order alongwith a copy of this writ petition and annexure(s) theret o. This writ petition stands disposed of with the above observations and di rections.