INSAN HOSSAIN Vs. STATE OF WEST BENGAL

JUDGEMENT

(1.) BY this writ petition the petitioner has inter alia prayed for a writ in the nature of Mandamus commanding the respondents nos. 4 and 5 to give effect to and benefit of a certain office order which has been annexed to the writ petition as Annexure P-7 and Annexure P-8 respectively, to give the petitioners an opportunity to appear at the eligibility test to become a regular employee of the respondent company and for other reliefs.

(2.) THE writ petitioner has been working under a Government contractor at Amdanga Sub-station of the West Bengal State Electricity Distribution Company Limited, i.e., the respondent no. 3 herein, from April, 1998. His case is that on January 17, 2011 the authorities had issued an office order, inter alia, to the effect that the contractor's labourers who had been working continuously at a sub-station were being afforded an opportunity to appear at the eligibility test and became a regular employee of the Company. The petitioner accordingly filed an application in the prescribed format which is annexed to the writ petition as annexure P/9 and has waited for a considerable period, but has not heard anything from the respondents. This has compelled him to move the present writ petition.

(3.) IN such view of it, I dispose of the writ petition by giving liberty to the petitioner to make a fresh representation to the respondent no. 5 within a period of two weeks from today by annexing thereto a copy of the earlier application he had filed before the appropriate authority pursuant to the office order dated January 17, 2011. Upon such application being made, the respondent no. 5 shall dispose of the same by giving the petitioner an opportunity of being heard. The entire exercise should be completed within a period of six weeks thereafter. The respondent no. 5 shall thereafter communicate his decision to the petitioner within a week thereafter.