IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA MJC No.1335 of 2009 1. BIHAR STATE AGRICULTURE MARKETING BOARD NON GAZETTED EMPLOYEES UNION THROUGH ITS PRESIDENT, MOHAN RAUT SON OF LATE BATAHU RAUT PANT BHAWAN, BAILY ROAD, POLICE STATION- SRIKRISHNAPURI, DISTRICT- PATNA. 2. MOHAN RAUT SON OF LATE BATHU RAUT, RESIDENT OF MOHALLA OLD JAKKANPUR, P.S. JAKKANPUR, DISTT- PATNA. AT PRESENT POSTED AS PACKAR IN AGRICULTURE PRODUCE MARKET COMMITTEE(ABOLISHED) WARSHALIGANJ, DISTRICT- PATNA………………………………………. PETITIONERS Versus 1. THE STATE OF BIHAR 2. SRI R.J.M. PILLAY, THE CHIEF SECRETARY, GOVERNMENT OF BIHAR, PATNA. 3. SRI NAVIN KUMAR, THE FINANCE COMMISSIONER, DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE, GOVERNMENT OF BIHAR, OLD SECRETARIAT, BIHAR, PATNA. 4. SMT.DIPIKA PANDA, THE AGRICULTURE PRODUCTION COMMISSIONER, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, NEW SECRETARIAT, GOVERNMENT OF BIHAR, PATNA. 5. SRI AMIR SUBAHANI,THE SECRETARY, PERSONNEL AND ADMINISTRATIVE REFORMS DEPARTMENT, GOVT. OF BIHAR, OLD SECRETARIAT, PATNA. 6. DR. B. RAJENDRA, THE ADMINISTRATOR, BIHAR STATE AGRICULTURE MARKETING BOARD ( ABOLISHED) PANT BHAWAN, BAILY ROAD, PATNA…………OPP. PARTIES. ----------- 4 28-7-2010 Heard the parties. By the order contained in annexure-1 dated 6-3-2009 the writ court during the pendency of the writ petition made interim arrangement and directions so that the employees of erstwhile Bihar State Agriculture Marketing Board and Agriculture Produce Market Committee did not starve although absorbed in accordance with law. Now the writ petition has been finally disposed of only Yesterday. The grievance of the petitioner is that the members of the petitioner association are getting their salary after absorption but for some period they had not received their salary and those dues are not being paid in 2 spite of general directions issued by the Personnel and Administrative Reforms Department through letter dated 30-11-2009. Learned counsel for the State was granted four weeks’ time to seek instruction from the Personnel and Administrative Reforms Department. On instructions, his submission is to the effect that payment of salary or dues is now the concern of the concerned departments where the employees have been absorbed and so far as the Personnel and Administrative Department is concerned general directions have already been issued on 30-11-2009. On considering all the relevant facts, this contempt application is disposed of with liberty to individual absorbed employs whether members of the petitioner’s association or not, 10to raise their grievance before the concerned department in respect of non-payment of lawful dues of salary through representation. The concerned department is expected to dispose of such representation in accordance with law keeping in view the general directions of the Personnel and Administrative Reforms Department through letter dated 30-11-2009, expeditiously and in any case within three months from the date of filing of the representation along with a copy of this order. Naresh ( Shiva Kirti Singh, J.)