Rima Biswas v. State Of West Bengal And ORS.

Dated : 13.11.2025 Sl. No. : ML 148.

Ct. No. : 18.

Officer : AGM.

In The High Court At Calcutta Constitution Writ Jurisdiction Appellate Side WPA 5416 of 2024 Rima Biswas Vs The State of West Bengal & Ors.

Mr. Balai Lal Sahoo.

Mr. Manoranjan Mahata.

......For the petitioner.

Mr. Kunal Ganguly.

... For WBBSE.

1.

The petitioner prays for grant of full house rent allowance. She relies upon the Memorandum of the School Education Department (Law Branch) dated 27th July, 2011.

2.

The petitioner submits that she is working in Bankura and her husband is working in Kolkata (Department of Posts). The distance between her place of service and the place of service of her husband is more than 200 kms. She claims that she would be entitled to full house rent allowance as per Rules.

3.

The prayer of the petitioner for grant of full house rent allowance was allowed by the School Authority and the same was forwarded by the Headmaster of the school to the District Inspector of Schools (S.E.), Bankura way back in September 2022. No decision has been taken by the District Inspector of Schools till date.

4.

None represents the State.

5.

Supplementary affidavit filed on behalf of the petitioner in Court today is taken on record. 6.

As it appears that the prayer of the petitioner for grant of full house rent allowance has already been forwarded by the schools to the District Inspector of Schools, accordingly, the instant writ petition stands disposed of by directing the District Inspector of Schools (S.E.), Bankura to take a decision on the prayer of the petitioner for grant of full house rent allowance in accordance with law and particularly the Memorandum dated 27th July,2011.

7.

An opportunity of hearing may be provided to the petitioner for production of all necessary documents in support of her claim and to ascertain the distance between the two places of service of the petitioner and her husband.

8.

The District Inspector of Schools shall take a decision in the matter by passing a reasoned order at the earliest but positively within a period of three months from the date of communication of this order.

9.

If any amount is found due and payable, the necessary consequential steps shall be taken by the Authority to disburse the amount in favour of the petitioner without any further delay.

10.

Learned advocate for the petitioner is directed to forward all relevant documents in support of her claim to the aforesaid authority at the time of communicating the order of the Court.

11.

The writ petition stands disposed of.

12.

Urgent photostat certified copy of this order be supplied to the parties, if applied for, as early as possible.

(Amrita Sinha, J.)