1 NAFR HIGH COURT OF CHHATTISGARH AT BILASPUR WPS No. 6064 of 2021 1 - Prakash Shrivastava S/o Late Shri Mathura Prasad Shrivastava Aged About 58 Years Working As Assistant Revenue Inspector And Posted At Nagar Panchayat Pendra District Gourela Pendra Marwahi Chhattisgarh ... Petitioner(s) versus 1 - State Of Chhattisgarh Through Secretary, Department Of Panchayat And Rural Development, Mahanadi Bhawan, Mantralaya New Raipur, District Raipur Chhattisgarh 2 - Director Urban Administration And Development Department, Naya Raipur, District Raipur Chhattisgarh 3 - Managing Director Chhattisgarh Infra Structute Development Corporation, Raipur, District Raipur Chhattisgarh 4 - Chief Medical Officer Nagar Panchayat Pendra District Gourela Pendra Marwahi Chhattisgarh ... Respondent(s) For Petitioner : Shri Barun Kumar Chakraborty, Advocate holding the brief of Shri Ajay Shrivastava, Advocate. For Respondent/ State : Shri Raj Kumar Gupta, Addl.A.G. For Respondent No.4 : Ms. Akanksha Jain, Advocate. SMT NIRMALA RAO 2 Hon'ble Shri Justice Rakesh Mohan Pandey Order on Board 14.08.2025 1. Learned counsel for the petitioner would submit that the petitioner was working in the erstwhile M.P.S.R.T.C. However, after the creation of the State of Chhattisgarh, a separate Road Transport Corporation was not constituted in the State. Therefore, his services were placed under the control of respondent/Chhattisgarh Infrastructure Development Corporation (for short 'C.I.D.C.'). He would further submit that the State Government has issued several circulars for the absorption of employees working with the erstwhile M.P.S.R.T.C into various Corporation/Mandals within the State of Chhattisgarh and pursuant to this policy, the services of several employees were absorbed. 2. Learned counsel would further submit that for the present, the petitioner would confine his prayer for issuance of a direction to the respondents to take a decision on the representation pending before the said authority. He restricts his prayer in view of the orders passed by this Court in the matters of O.P. Singh Vs. State of Chhattisgarh & others1, Abdul Hakim Vs. State of Chhattisgarh & others2, Uttam Kumar Sharma Vs. State of Chhattisgarh & others3, Raju Pandey & others Vs. The State of Chhattisgarh & others4, Nandkumar Vaishnav & others Vs. The State of Chhattisgarh & others5 and Chandrayan Singh Thakur & others Vs. The State of Chhattisgarh & others6. 1 WP (S) No.5521/2010 2 WP (S) No.473/2013 3 WP (S) No.476/2013 4 WP (S) No.1220/2013 5 WP (S) No.1458/2013 6 WP (S) No.2128/2013 3 3. In view of the above, the writ petition is disposed of with a direction that, in the event, the petitioner submits a fresh representation before the competent authority within a period of four weeks, the said authority shall consider and decide petitioner’s representation in an objective manner, keeping in view the circulars issued by the State Government from time to time, as well as the orders of absorption passed with respect to the similarly placed employees, as early as possible, preferably within a period of three months from the date of submission of the representation. 4. It is made clear that this Court has not expressed any opinion on the merits of the case, and the respondent authorities shall decide the matter on its own merits, strictly in accordance with law. 5. With the above observation, the writ petition is finally disposed of. Sd/- (Rakesh Mohan Pandey) Judge Nimmi