IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.5604 of 2010 1. DR. BILAT PASWAN VIHANGAM S/O LATE BHUTAI PASWAN R/O BAHADURPUR HOUSING COLONY, BOOTH NATH ASHRAM ROAD, P.S.- AGAMKUAN, DISTT.- PATNA- 800 016, THE THEN CHAIRMAN, BIHAR STATE INTER UNIVERSITY BOARD Versus 1. THE STATE OF BIHAR, THROUGH ITS CHIEF SECRETARY, PATNA SECRETARIATE, PATNA 2. HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT (HIGHER EDUCATION) DEPARTMENT THROUGH ITS PRINCIPAL SECRETARY, PATNA SECRETARIATE, PATNA 3. PRINCIPAL SECRETARY, HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT (HIGHER EDUCATION) DEPARTMENT PATNA SECRETARIATE, PATNA 4. SECRETARY, FINANCE DEPARTMENT, BIHAR, PATNA 04/ 10.05.2010 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and the counsel for the State, G.A.-2, who has filed counter affidavit but is praying for four weeks’ time to either ensure compliance of the resolution of the State Government dated 22.2.2006 or to seek its reversal within the same time. In view of the fact that this matter has been adjourned twice, this Court is not inclined to grant any further adjournment in the matter and is proceeding to pass following order. 2. From the pleadings made in the writ application, it appears that the State Government on 22.2.2006 approved the grant of benefit of the pay revision to the functionaries and employees of the Bihar Inter University Board (hereinafter referred to as the Board), but consequential benefit of such decision is not being granted to the petitioner, who on 22.2.2006 served the Board as its Chairman on the ground that in the meanwhile Bihar Inter University Board Act, 1981, constituting the Board, has been repealed under the Bihar Inter University Board (Repeal) Act, 2007 (hereinafter referred to as the Repeal Act) with effect from 19.4.2007, the date on which the Repeal - 2 - Act was notified in the gazette. 3. Notwithstanding the dissolution of the Board with effect from 19.4.2007, the decision of the State Government dated 22.2.2006 to grant the benefit of the pay revision to the functionaries and employees of the Board, including its Chairman, the petitioner has got to be implemented in view of Section 7 of the Repeal Act and, accordingly, it is directed that the decision of the State Government taken in the Cabinet meeting held on 22.2.2006 with regard to the benefit of the pay revision to the functionaries and employees of the Board be executed in the light of Section 7 of the Repeal Act in accordance with law, as early as possible, in any case within four weeks from the date of receipt/ production of a copy of this order before the Principal Secretary of the Human Resources Department of the State Government. In the event the authorities are not inclined to execute such decision, they must move the State Government and seek review of the Cabinet decision dated 22.2.2006 within the same time. Order to the contrary contained in memo No. 2389 dated 30.11.2009, Annexure-10 is quashed. Arjun/ (V.N. Sinha, J.)