IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.16962 of 2008 KANCHAN RANI Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR & ORS ----------- 2/ 18/05/2009 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned counsel for the State. The claim in this application is for appointment on the post of Panchayat Teacher in the Primary School at Gram Panchayat Raj Doriya. It is the case of the petitioner that against the denial of the appointment she has already submitted representation with a copy to the Block Development Officer on 3.6.2008 and which remains pending till date. With effect from 25.8.2008 when the rules framed in 2006 regulating appointment of Panchayat Teachers came to be amended, in Clause-11 of the amended Rules the Block Development Officer prescribed as the appropriate authority under the erstwhile Rule-18 came to be replaced by the Appellate Authority and all pending matters are deemed to have been transferred to the Appellate Authority by virtue of Rule-2 of the notification creating the authority. The application of the petitioner before the Block Development Officer is, therefore, deemed to be a 2 pending application before the Appellate Authority. The writ application is disposed with liberty to the petitioner to file a fresh representation before the Appellate Authority in continuance of her pending application before the Block Development Officer. Let the Appellate Authority decide the matter by a reasoned and speaking order after hearing all concerned. This order is subject to the fact that no appropriate orders have already been passed by the Block Development Officer. Let the Appellate Authority comply the same in the manner discussed above within the time prescribed in Rule-2 of the notification creating authority. KC ( Navin Sinha, J.)