WP(C) 631/2009 BEFORE HON’BLE MR JUSTICE I A ANSARI Heard Ms. M. Barman, learned counsel for the petitioners, and Mr. M. K. Mishra, learned Standing counsel, Education Department, appearing on behalf of the respo ndent Nos. 2, 3 and 4. Heard also Ms. H. N. Konwar, learned Government Advocate, appearing on behalf of respondent No. 1. Upon hearing the learned counsel for the parties and on perusal of the m aterials on record, I am, as agreed to by the learned counsel for the parties ap pearing before, inclined to dispose of the writ petition, at the motion stage it self, with the following observations and directions: The petitioners claim that they are regular selected teachers, but they have not been paid their salaries since January, 1998, though they have been rendering t heir services as Assistant Teachers. With regard to the case of the present natu re, the Government has, according to what is submitted on behalf of the responde nts, taken a decision, as contained in the order dated 28/1/2009, issued by the Secretary to the Government of Assam, Education (Elementary) Department, Dispur, addressed to the Senior Standing Counsel, Education Department, Gauhati High Co urt, Guwahati, indicating therein, that the Department concerned has, as per dir ection of the High Court in a number of writ petitions/writ appeals, created 152 8 Superanuary posts for LP Schools in Sivasagar district with the provision for payment of salaries up to 28/2/2009. In the circumstances as indicated herein-above, the respondents are hereby direc ted to pay, in terms of the decision contained in the letter, dated 28/1/2009, a forementioned, to the petitioners their due salaries. The petitioners shall rema in at liberty to take recourse to appropriate provisions of law if they are not paid their salaries beyond 28/1/2009 provided that the petitioners are found ent itled to the relief(s), which they have sought for.