IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.15847 of 2007 Bandana Kumari, Wife of Shri Chandra Kishore Poddar, Resident of Village Barahkurba, Police Station Bakhtiarpur, Post Office Simri Bakhtiarpur, District Saharsa. -------- Petitioner Versus 1. The State of Bihar. 2. The Director, Social Welfare Department, Bihar, Patna. 3. The Deputy Director, Welfare Department, Koshi Division, Saharsa. 4. The District Magistrate, Saharsa. 5. The District Development Commissioner, Saharsa. 6. The District Welfare Officer, Saharsa. 7. The Child Development Project Officer (C.D.P.O.), Simri Bakhtiarpur, Saharsa. 8. The Mukhiya, Simri Gram Panchayat, Post Office Simri Bakhtiarpur, District Saharsa. 9. The Panchayat Sevak, Simri Gram Panchayat, Post Office-Simri Bakhtiarpur, District Saharsa. 10. Kanta Devi, Wife of Sunil Kumar Yadav, Resident of Hindupur, Police Station Bakhtiarpur, Post Office, Simri Bakhtiarpur, District Saharsa. ------ Respondents ----------- 2 18.12.2009 Heard counsel for the petitioner and counsel for the State. The prayer of petitioner in this writ application reads as follows:- “1(i) For the issuance an order/direction to the respondent no.7, 8 and 9 to produce the letter, selecting respondent no.10 as Anganbari Sevika’ for Aganbari Centre, Bilo Choudhary Tola, Barahkurba, under Simri Panchayat within Simri Bakhtiarpur Block in the District of Saharsa, by the Child Development Project Officer, respondent no.7 and on 2 production be further pleased to issue an order in the nature of certiorari to quash the said selection letter. (ii) For the issuance of a writ in the nature of mandamus directing the respondent authority to consider the case of the petitioner for appointment/selection as Anganbari Sevika for Anganbari Centre, Bilo Choudhary Tola, Barahkurba, under Simri Panchayat of Simri Bakhtiarpur Block in the District of Saharsa.” With reference to the aforementioned relief, counsel for the petitioner would submit that representation for the same relief was filed by the petitioner before the Collector of Saharsa 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 3 petitioner for this purpose ought to have been disposed of. That having not been done, this court would direct the Collector of Saharsa District to dispose of the representation of the petitioner as contained in Annexure-9 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. 10 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. With the aforementioned observations and directions, this writ application is disposed of. Rsh (Mihir Kumar Jha, J.)