1 lgc IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION WRIT PETITION NO. 6755 OF 2009 Anil Govind Surve : Petitioner versus State of Maharashtra & ors. : Respondents. Mr R K Mendadkar for the Petitioner Mr V S Gokhale, AGP, for the Respondents. CORAM : S B MHASE & R M SAVANT, JJ. DATE : 8th September 2009 P.C. 1. Heard. So far as the Petitioner is concerned, the approval has now been granted to the appointment of the Petitioner from 2006. The grant of approval was kept pending inordinately, and therefore by an order dated 31st August 2009 we issued notice to the Education Officer as to why interest on the pay of the Petitioner from 2006 onwards should not be recovered from him as the Petitioner has not been paid salary since 2006. 2 2. After having gone through the affidavit of the Respondent­ Education Officer we are satisfied that the delay in giving approval to the Petitioner was unintentional. We only observe henceforth the Education Officer shall be cautious enough in granting approval and henceforth as far as possible, after the proposal is submitted, within a period of one month thereof a decision in respect of the approval shall be taken by the Education Officer. The practice which is being followed of keeping the proposal for approval pending till March is required to be deprecated. The moment the proposal for approval is submitted, it has to be decided in any event within a period of one month from the date of submission of the proposal by the Management. We direct that the Petitioner’s arrears shall be paid within a period of eight weeks from date. 3. With the aforesaid observations, the Petition is disposed of. [R.M.SAVANT, J] [S.B.MHASE, J]