Usha Kiran Narain W/o Shri Abhay Shankar Singh v. State Of Bihar
2012-03-15
JAYANANDAN SINGH
body2012
DigiLaw.ai
ORDER 1. Petitioner has filed this writ application on 16.6.2011 with a prayer for a direction to the respondents to consider her case for promotion in any of the Schemes under which she may be found covered. She claims to be appointed as a lecturer in the Government Girls College, Gulzarbagh on 24.6.1983. 2. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that since this is a Government College petitioner is a Government servant. Hence, she is covered by Time Bound Promotion Scheme also. He submits that the petitioner has represented for the purpose times without number to the concerned respondents, but they are not considering her representation and are not taking any decision, either way, on the same. He submits that even if petitioner is considered to be a College employee receiving UGC Pay Scale, then in that case, she will be entitled for promotion under the other Schemes of UGC. He submits that the respondents are required to take a decision either way in respect of entitlement of the petitioner for her promotion in either of the Schemes. 3. More than eight months have passed but no counter affidavit has been filed in this case by the respondents. 4. State Government has framed Litigation Policy, 2011 to expedite redressal of grievances of its employees and minimize litigation. The Policy has to be given effect to with all due sincerely so that effect of the same may become visible on the pending litigations and litigations being filed in this Court. 5. In the circumstances, this Court considers it desirable that instead of waiting for its employees to approach the Grievance Redressal Committee for redressal of their grievances, the State Government should also offer all the petitioners of all cases pending before this Court to come forward and get their matters decided by the concerned Grievance Redressal Committee. For this the Nodal Officers appointed in each department may obtain necessary information from the concerned State Counsels and inform the concerned petitioners with a request to them to file their appropriate applications before the Grievance Redressal Committee, instead of waiting for months and years for their matters to be taken up and decided by this Court. Their matters thereafter should be considered and decided by the concerned Grievance Redressal Committee at an early date.
Their matters thereafter should be considered and decided by the concerned Grievance Redressal Committee at an early date. Efficient functioning of the Grievance Redressal Committee and sensitiveness of the Government towards the grievances of petitioners of the pending cases will only show that the State Government is serious about implementation of its Policy. This Court is of the view that the efforts and concern of the State Government towards the woes of its employees and the residents of the State will be very much appreciated if the concerned departments collect exhaustive list of cases of their respective departments pending in this Court with details of the petitioners and publish the same in newspapers inviting the petitioners to approach the concerned Grievance Redressal Committees for time bound consideration of their grievances. 6. So far as present writ petitioner is concerned, no counter affidavit has been filed by the respondents in this case in the last eight months. In the circumstances, this Court has no option than to direct the petitioner to file a representation before the Grievance Redressal Committee of the Department, which shall be immediately registered and a date will be fixed on the same, intimating the petitioner to appear on the date which shall not be beyond four weeks from the date of filing of the representation. The State Government has fixed up time limit of eight weeks for disposal of such representations. Hence, this Court directs the concerned Grievance Redressal Committee to finally take a decision and dispose of the representation of the petitioner in accordance with law positively within eight weeks from the date of filing of the same. 7. With the aforesaid observations and directions, this writ application is disposed of.