IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.16552 of 2007 LAXMI DEVI @ LAXMI KUMARI, wife of Sri Niranjan Mandal, village Lailakh, Post Mamlakha, Block and P.S. Sabour, District Bhagalpur … Petitioner Versus 1. THE STATE OF BIHAR, through the Secretary, Department of Welfare, Bihar, Patna 2. Director, Social Welfare Department, Govt. of Bihar, Patna 3. The Commissioner, Bhagalpur Division, Bhagalpur 4. The District Magistrate, Bhagalpur 5. The Deputy Development Commissioner, District Bhagalpur 6. The District Welfare cum Programme Officer, Bhagalpur 7. The Sub-divisional Officer, Sadar Bhagalpur, District Bhagalpur 8. The Child Development Programme Officer, Sabour, District Bhagalpur 9. Block Development Officer, Sabour Block, District Bhagalpur 10. Mukhiya, Gram Panchayat, Lailakh, Block Sabour, District Bhagalpur 11. Nandan Kumari, wife of Sri Sridhar Prasad, village Lailakh, Post Mamlakha, P.S. Sabour, District Bhagalpur … Respondents. ----------- 2. 18.12.2009 Heard counsel for the petitioner and the counsel for the State. The prayer of the petitioner in this writ application reads as follows: “(i) To quash the proceeding of Aamsabha dt. 24.4.2007 held in the Middle School, Lailakh for the selection of Aanganwari Sevika in which the Mukhiya in league with Child Development Programme Officer, Sabour has rejected the candidature of the petitioner on the ground that since she passed Matriculation examination in the 2 year 1991 but produced the marksheet obtained in the year 2003 from the Bihar School Examination Board, Patna and wrongly selected and appointed respondent no.11 on the post of Aanganwari Sevika when she has less percentage of mark than that of petitioner which is contained in Annexure- ; (ii) To direct the respondents to appoint/select the petitioner as Aanganwari Sevika for the Lailakh Aanganwari Kendra in the Panchayat Lailakh, Block Sabour, District Bhagalpur for which the petitioner has the highest percentage of marks i.e. 56.55% in order to merit but wrongly rejected the candidature of the petitioner and selected respondent no.11 on the post of Aanganwari Sevika.” With reference to the aforementioned relief, counsel for the petitioner would submit that the two representations for the same relief were filed by the petitioner before the Collector of Bhagalpur 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 Anganwari 3 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 representations filed by the petitioner for this purpose ought to have been disposed of. That having not been done, this Court would direct the Collector of Bhagalpur District to dispose of the representations of the petitioner, as contained in Annexures 6 and 7, 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. 11 as also representative of concerned Gram Panchayat. In order to expedite the matter, this Court would also direct the petitioner to produce this order alongwith a copy of her earlier representation before the Collector of the District. With the aforementioned observations and directions, this writ application is disposed of. (Mihir Kumar Jha,J.) Surendra/ 4