Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC-LKO:17571 Court No. - 3 Case :- WRIT - A No. - 3307 of 2025 Petitioner :- Raj Kumar Yadav Respondent :- State Of U.P. Thru. Its Prin. Secy. Basic Education Deptt. And 2 Others Counsel for Petitioner :- D.K. Singh Chauhan Counsel for Respondent :- C.S.C. Hon'ble Rajesh Singh Chauhan,J. Heard Sri D.K. Singh Chauhan, learned counsel for the petitioner and Sri Ranvijay Singh, learned Additional Chief Standing Counsel for the opposite party nos. 1 and 2. In view of the proposed order to be passed, notice to opposite party no. 3 is hereby dispensed with. By means of this writ petition, the petitioner has prayed for the following reliefs:- "i) Issue a writ, order or direction in the nature of Mandamus commanding the opposite party No.2 to pay the promotional pay scale to the petitioner as has been given to the persons junior to the petitioner namely Ram Bharose Pal and Ajay Kumar Srivastava. ii) Issue a writ, order or direction in the nature of Mandamus commanding/directing the opposite party No.2 to consider and decide the representation of the petitioner dated 5.3.2025 as contained in Annexure No.7 to this writ petition." Learned counsel for the petitioner has submitted that for redressal of his grievance, the petitioner has preferred representation dated 05.03.2025 to the competent authority but to no avail. He has further submitted that the petitioner is ready to prefer a fresh representation to the Competent Authority, therefore, he may be permitted to prefer a fresh representation to the opposite party No.2 i.e., District Basic Education Officer, Hardoi and a direction may be issued to him to consider and decide the said representation of the petitioner with expedition. Learned Standing Counsel has no objection if direction for disposal of the said representation is issued. Therefore, in view of the above, without entering into merits of the issue, I hereby dispose of this petition finally at the admission stage giving liberty to the petitioner to prefer a fresh representation to the opposite party No.2 i.e., District Basic Education Officer, Hardoi ventilating his grievance taking all pleas and grounds which are available with him enclosing therewith the copy of his earlier representation, if any, which are necessary for disposal of the representation within a period of fifteen days from today and if such representation is preferred by the petitioner within the aforesaid stipulated time, the authority concerned shall consider and dispose of the same strictly, by speaking and reasoned order in accordance with law after affording an opportunity of hearing to the petitioner, if it is so required, with expedition preferably, within a period of two months from the date of receipt of certified copy of this order and the decision thereof shall be intimated to the petitioner forthwith. This writ petition is disposed of, in view of the aforesaid terms. Order Date :- 27.3.2025 Anurag Digitally signed by :- ANURAG SINGH High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench