IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.10574 of 2008 KAMINI KUMARI . Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR & ORS . ----------- 2. 24.12.2009 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and the State. Learned counsel for the petitioner is permitted to correct the address of respondent nos. 5 and 6. The petitioner claims to have been an applicant for the post of Secretary Gram Kachahari under an advertisement dated 8.3.2007 and claims that his name finds place in the merit panel prepared after selection. He was denied appointment on the ground that he holds the qualification of Madhayama which was not considered as equivalent to matriculation, the qualification prescribed in the advertisement. After a Bench of this Court held that Madhayama was equivalent to matriculation under a government notification of 1999 itself in C.W.J.C. No. 13905 of 2007, the authorities themselves have made statutory amendment in the Gram Kachahari Rules effective from 31.1.2008 recognizing Madhayama as an equivalent qualification to matriculation. The petitioner has represented and is therefore entitled to be considered for appointment accordingly. Counsel for the State has no objection to the disposal of this writ application with directions to consider the 2 representation of the petitioner in accordance with the legislative amendment and any administrative order that may have been issued in pursuance thereof but which has to be strictly considered in accordance with the merit panel only within a maximum period of four months from the date of receipt/production of a copy of this order before respondent no. 5. The writ application stands disposed. P. Kumar (Navin Sinha, J.)