Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC-LKO:6531 Court No. - 6 Case :- WRIT - A No. - 1293 of 2025 Petitioner :- Rajendra Pratap Giri Respondent :- State Of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Public Works Deptt. Lko. And 4 Others Counsel for Petitioner :- Sridhar Awasthi Counsel for Respondent :- C.S.C. Hon'ble Alok Mathur,J. 1. Heard Shri Sudeep Seth, learned Senior Advocate assisted by Shri Sridhar Awasthi, learned counsel for petitioner, learned Standing Counsel for the State and perused the material available on record. 2. It has been submitted by learned counsel for petitioner that the petitioner is an Executive Engineer ((Electrical/Mechanical) and is posted at Agra Division in the Public Works Department. The petitioner is the senior most person and is fully eligible for Superintending Engineer (Electrical/Mechanical). He further submits that apart from the regular promotion, various government orders have been issued by the State for promoting the persons on the basis of merit. It is stated that the merit has to be determined in a manner as is prescribed in Government Order dated 27.09.2019 where marks are allotted for in the Annual Confidential Remarks given each year. 3. Lastly, it is stated that the petitioner is due for superannuation within one year and a prayer has been made for a direction to the respondents to decide the representation of the petitioner dated 09.10.2024 within a stipulated period of time. 4. Learned Standing Counsel does not oppose the prayer made by learned counsel for petitioner. 5. In light of the above, this writ petition is disposed of at the admission stage with the direction to respondent no. 1 i.e., Principal Secretary, Public Works Department, Civil Secretariat, Lucknow to consider and decide the representation of the petitioner dated 09.10.2024 as contained in Annexure No. 10 to the writ petition by a speaking and reasoned order expeditiously say within a period of six weeks in accordance with law from the date a certified copy of this order is produced before him and communicate the decision to the petitioner. (Alok Mathur, J.) Order Date :- 30.1.2025 Virendra Digitally signed by :- VIRENDRA KUMAR GUPTA High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench