WP(C) 4131/2006 BEFORE HON’BLE SMT. JUSTICE A. HAZARIKA Heard Mr BB Gogoi, learned counsel appearing for the petitioner. Also heard Ms M Gogoi, learned Standing Counsel, Education Department. As agreed to by the learned counsel for the parties, this writ petition is dispo sed of at the admission stage itself. The writ petition has been filed with the following prayers: 1) To do the needful so that the petitioner may be able to resume her duty as Assistant Teacher of Baranghati Senior Basic School. 2) To release the salary of the petitioner from 3.5.06 till date and/or pas s such other appropriate order/orders. The petitioner’s case in brief is that the petitioner was appointed as A ssistant Teacher in Kulhati Girls ME School by the District Elementary Education Officer, Kamrup on 11.2.94. Thereafter by an order dated 6.1.95 the District El ementary Education Officer, Kamrup extended the service of the petitioner until further order. Due to some anomalies in appointment of School teachers during th e period of 19.3.91 to 30.11.96 the Government of Assam appointed an one man Enq uiry Committee headed by Sri S. Monoharan, IAS, and subsequently by Task Force/D istrict Level Screening Committee/Departmental Screening Committee and as per de cision of the Cabinet Meeting held on 24.2.05 services of five ME/MVM/MV Working teachers of Kamrup district has been regularized w.e.f. their date of joining. Among the five teachers the name of the petitioner appears on the top of the l ist and thus her service was regularized as Asstt. Teacher in the Baranghati Sen ior Basic School by the District Elementary Education Officer, Kamrup vide his m emo No. DEEO/AT/MCR/2002/14318-24 dated 28.4.06. Accordingly, pursuant to the aforesaid order, on 3.5.06 the petitioner had joine d as Assistant Teacher in the aforesaid school. But on 4.5.06, the President o f the Managing Committee of the School along with some local people did not allo w the petitioner to attend classes. The petitioner thereafter, informed Block El ementary Education Officer, Rangia and District Elementary Education Officer, K amrup, in writing about the incident. But nothing has been done by the authority concerned. The salary of the petitioner has also not been released. Being aggrieved, the petitioner has filed the instant writ application with the aforesaid prayers. Having regard to the fact that the petitioner though, on the strength of the ord er to the said effect had joined as Asstt. Teacher in the said school on 3.5.06 and inspite thereof, allegedly on the unauthorized intervention of the local pe ople she has not been able to discharge her duties, this court vide order dated 11.1.07 directed personal attendance of the District Elementary Education Offic er, Kamrup, to offer his explanation in this regard. Pursuant to the aforesaid court’s order, the District Elementary Education Offic er, Kamrup appeared personally before the court on 19.1.07 and prayed for time t ill today i.e. 24.1.07 to file affidavit indicating necessary steps taken by hi m to enable the petitioner to discharge her duties as Asst. Teacher in the scho ol. On his prayer so made, the court granted time till 24.01.2007 for filing affidav it by the District Elementary Officer, Kamrup. Accordingly, an affidavit has bee n filed by the District Elementary Education Officer, Kamrup today stating inte r alia therein that he had requested the Block Elementary Education Officer , Ra ngia to withdraw the earlier letter dated 23.5.06 issued by him and further dir ected the petitioner to attend the school immediately in compliance to his lette r and accordingly, now she is attending the school regularly as Asstt. Teacher . Further, Mr. KN Das, District Elementary Education Officer, Kamrup has stated b efore this court that as stated in para 9 of the affidavit he has already sent p roposal to the Government for releasing the arrear salary to the petitioner with effect from 3.5.06 and the same is pending before the Government. Heard learned counsel for the parties and perused the materials on record. On the submissions made by the District Elementary Education Officer, Kamrup as well as the submissions made by Ms. M. Gogoi, learned Standing Counsel, Educati on Department, that the Government would take a decision at the earliest with re gard to release of the salary to the petitioner, I direct the authority concerne d to take a decision for releasing the arrear salary to the petitioner with eff ect from 3.5.06 within a period of six (6) weeks from today and to pay the curre nt salary regularly. With the above direction and observation, this writ petition stands disposed of . However, no order as to cost.