WP(C) 1587/2008 BEFORE HONBLE MR JUSTICE AMITAVA ROY Heard Dr YK Phukan, learned counsel for the petitioner. Also heard Mr MR Pathak, learned Standing counsel, Education Department. For the order which I propose to pass, it is not considered necessary to go into the factual details. The case of the petitioner in brief is that ,after due selection, he was appointed as an Assistant Teacher and was duly posted at Satra MV school, Nalb ari. The petitioner claims that pursuant thereto, he accordingly joined the said school. He was by order dated 23.7.2003 transferred to Blind school, Guwahat i vice Sri Bipin Ch. Deka , Assistant Teacher transferred to Satra MV school, N albari. This was on 23.7.2003. Sri Bipin Ch.Deka being aggrieved by the non payment of his salary appr oached this Court with WP( C) No.675/2007. Thereafter by order dated 14.3.2008 t he Director of Elementary Education, Assam coming to the conclusion that the pe titioner’s appointment was illegal, directed a show cause notice to be issued t o him to explain as to why his services should not be discontinued. Sri Bipin C h Deka by the said order was directed to be reverted to his original post at th e Blind school, Guwahati. In the interregnum, the petitioner was prevented from continuing in service at the said school. On 15.3.2008 a show cause notice w as issued to the petitioner by the Director of Elementary Education, Assam. Not only the petitioner has responded to the said notice , he has also preferred an appeal before the Commissioner and Secretary to the Govt. of Assam, Education D epartment assailing the same on 19.3.2008. This Court in WP( C) No.675/2007 instituted by Sri Bipin Ch. Deka order ed on 26.3.2008 permitting the State respondents to implement the proposal of t ransferring him to the Blind school, Guwahati,Basistha in terms of the order d ated 14.3.2008 of the Director of Elementary Education, Assam and also to provi de for his pay/salary. On an application for review of the said order of this Court registered as Review Application No. 34/2008, by order dated 31.3.2008 it was clarified t hat the disposal of the petitioner’s appeal would not in any way be hindered or prejudiced by the order dated 26.3.2008 disposing of the Writ Petition( C ) N o.675/2007. Dr Phukan while reiterating the challenge to the order dated 14.3.2008 impugned in the instant proceeding submits that in the above factual premise, it would meet the petitioner’s grievance for the present if the petition is cl osed with a direction to the Commissioner and Secretary to the Govt. of Assam t o consider and dispose of his appeal within a fixed time frame. Mr Pathak , learned Standing counsel, Education Department has no object ion to the course of disposal suggested though he stands by the validity of the order dated 14.3.2008. Upon hearing the learned counsel for the parties and without offering an y comment on the merits of the rival claims, this petition stands disposed with a direction to the Commissioner and Secretary to the Govt. of Assam ,Education D epartment to dispose of the petitioner’s appeal dated 19.3.2008 on merits after affording due opportunity of hearing to him. In view of the urgency expressed b y the learned Senior counsel for the petitioner, this Court considers it essen tial to fix a deadline for compliance of this order and accordingly Six(6) week s time is granted to the aforementioned authority to take an appropriate decis ion on the petitioner’s appeal on an over all consideration of the facts and the law involved. The petition stands disposed in the above terms. To facilitate the comp etition of the exercise within the time limit fixed, the petitioner would furni sh the certified copy of this order to the Commissioner and Secretary to the Gov t. of Assam,Education Department, Assam so as to enable him to do the needful. Mr Pathak from his end also would communicate to the said authority this order. No costs.