IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No.3663 of 2010 Date of Decision : March 03, 2010. Sudesh Saini .....Petitioner versus State of Punjab and others .....Respondents CORAM : HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE SURYA KANT. Present : Mr.Parminder Singh-I, Advocate, for the petitioner. -.- 1. Whether Reporters of Local papers may be allowed to see the judgment? 2. To be referred to the Reporters or not? 3. Whether the judgment should be reported in the Digest? --- Surya Kant, J. (Oral) The petitioner impugns the list of surplus Social Study Masters/Mistresses (Annexure P-3), prepared by the District Education Officer (S.E.), Hoshiarpur under the Rationalization Policy 2009-2010. The petitioner is a widow and is working as a Social Studies Mistress in Government Senior Secondary School, Piplanwala, District Hoshiarpur. There was one Smt.Jasbir Kaur who was also posted as a Social Study Mistress in the same School and she retired on attaining the age of superannuation in February, 2006. Keeping in view the work-load and requirement, the said vacant post was to be abolished/ shifted from the afore-mentioned school. However, one Balbir Chand-respondent No.5 was transferred and he joined against the said vacant post in July, 2007 with an undertaking in writing that as and when the post becomes surplus, he may C.W.P.No .3663 of 2010 2 be included amongst the surplus staff. Contrary to the said undertaking, it is alleged that the petitioner has now been included in the impugned list on the basis of her longer stay in the afore-mentioned school. There is nothing on record to suggest that the District Education Officer (S.E.), Hoshiarpur was apprised of the alleged undertaking given by Balbir Chand-respondent No.5 and if so, on what basis the same has been over-looked. It appears that despite a representation sent by the petitioner on 24.2.2010 (Annexure P-1), the list of surplus S.S.Masters/Mistresses has not been re-drawn/suitably modified. In these circumstances, however, without expressing any views on the merits of the petitioner's claim, I deem it appropriate to dispose of this writ petition with a direction to the District Education Officer (S.E.), Hoshiarpur (respondent No.3) to take notice of the afore- mentioned objection(s) raised by the petitioner and redress her grievance as early as possible but not later than one month from the date of receiving a certified copy of this order. Till then, the petitioner shall not be transferred from her present place of posting. Ordered accordingly. Dasti. March 03, 2010 (SURYA KANT) Mohinder JUDGE