Tarachandpur Iswar Ch Memorial Jr High Sch Thru Secry & ORS v. State Of West Bengal
WPA 9696 of 2014 10.4.2025 Tarachandpur Iswar Chandra .Memorial Jr. High School & Ors. ct.25, sl. 279 vs sk The State of West Bengal & Ors. Mr. Mukteswar Maity Ms. Manika Sarkar ...for the petitioner.
Ms. Koyeli Bhattacharyya Mr. Bibek Datta Ms. Keya Panja ...for the WBBSE.
The writ petitioners and the Board are represented but none appears for the State respondent in spite of service of notice. Hence, this matter is being taken up for adjudication in absence of the State respondent. The writ petitioners claimed themselves to be the organizing teachers, whose names have not appeared in the D.L.I.T. report dated September 21, 1996 pursuant to which the School has been recognised by the State. Upon recognition, the School has been imposed with certain regulatory conditions as enumerated in the enclosure of the Board's letter dated August 22, 2013. The petitioners have put forth their challenge as to the said conditions too.
The petitioners have claimed that their services as the organizing teaching and non-teaching staff of the School, on and from September 21, 1996, should be approved by the respondents as well as the School should be awarded the benefit of grant in aid assistant under the State.
The contentions and prayers of the writ petitioners have been reduced in writing in their letter dated February 11, 2014 addressed to the Principal Secretary, School Education Department (S.E.), Government of West Bengal.
To their prayers as contained in the said letter there is no answer as yet available from the said addressee. In fact, the prayer of the petitioners in the said letter has not been considered by the respondent authorities as yet.
Under such circumstances, the Court finds it proper to dispose of the present writ petition by directing the respondent no.
2/Commissioner of School Education, West Bengal (erstwhile), the Director of School Education West Bengal to immediately consider the petitioners' representation and decide thereupon. In doing so, the said respondent shall afford an adequate opportunity of hearing to the writ petitioners/their representatives and dispose of the same by dint of a reasoned order.
The entire exercise should be completed by the said respondent within a period of eight weeks from the date of communication of copy of this order.
The writ petition is disposed of.
Since no affidavit-in-opposition has been called for in this case, all allegations made in this writ petition are deemed to have been denied by the concerned respondent.
Urgent Photostat certified copy of this order if applied for, be given to the parties upon compliance of all formalities.
(Rai Chattopadhyay, J.)