IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.155 of 2009 MOHD.ABBAS Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR & ORS ----------- 2. 6.5.2009 On 4.7.2008 this Court disposed C.W.J.C. No. 16268 of 2007 filed by the petitioner to avail his alternative statutory remedy before the Block Development Officer under Rule 18 of the Bihar Panchayat Primary Teachers (Appointment and Service Conditions) Rules, 2006. The Block Development Officer by his letter dated 5.8.2008 has rightly observed that since the matter related to the appointment of a Block Teacher, the appropriate authority was the Deputy Development Commissioner. While the matter remained pending at this stage, the 2006 Rules has been amended in 2008 by creation of the appellate authority to hear such grievances. Rule 2 of the notification dated 25.8.2008 clarifies that pending matters before the erstwhile statutory authority shall stand transferred to the appellate authority. In the facts of the case, this Court is satisfied that the claim of the petitioner shall be deemed to be one pending consideration before the Deputy Development Commissioner and therefore shall stand transferred to the appellate authority to be decided in accordance with law. Any such application of the petitioner is required to be decided within the time framed directed for in Rule 2 of the notification creating the authority by a reasoned and speaking order after hearing all concerned. The application stands disposed. P. Kumar (Navin Sinha, J.)