IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.5127 of 2007 PINKI KUMARI W i t h CWJC No.16236 of 2007 RASHMI RANI & ORS W i t h CWJC No.2261 of 2008 DHIRENDRA PRASAD & ANR W i t h CWJC No.2801 of 2008 MD.NOOR ALAM W i t h CWJC No.1997 of 2008 BABAN KUMAR W i t h CWJC No.9390 of 2007 KUMARI RENU Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR & ORS ----------- 2/ 13/05/2009 The matters relate to appointment as Panchayat Teachers/Block Teachers. The State Government has, in 2008, amended the earlier rules framed in 2006 regulating such appointments. Clause-11 of the ‘2008 Amendment’ constitutes an Appellate Authority to hear such grievances. In view of an alternative statutory remedy available to the petitioners, which this Court considers more expedient and efficacious considering that the Appellate Authority has been constituted district-wise and where the original records shall also be made easily available and issues of facts can also be appropriately examined, learned counsel for the petitioner seeks leave to withdraw the applications to pursue the alternative remedies before the Statutory Authority. 2 The writ applications are permitted to be withdrawn with the liberty as aforesaid. It is submitted that some of these matters are covered by certain orders of this Court on similar issues. The Appellate Authority is obliged to consider that aspect of the matter appropriately. In the event that he opines that in a particular case the petitioner was not similarly situated, he shall be obliged to pass a reasoned and speaking order on the grounds of difference recorded to his satisfaction to facilitate judicial review, if the need arises. It is made clear that this Court has not gone into the merits of the matter which is to be decided by the appellate authority after hearing all concerned by a reasoned and speaking order within the stipulated time fixed in the notification creating the authority. KC ( Navin Sinha, J.)