1 / 3 2026:CGHC:5088 NAFR HIGH COURT OF CHHATTISGARH AT BILASPUR WPS No. 940 of 2026 1. Ram Charan Dhangar S/o Tikaram Dhangar Aged About 66 Years Retired Time Keeper, R/o Village Paradiya, Tehsil Takhatpur, District Bilaspur Chhattigsarh 2. Smt. Ramshila Dubey W/o Late Chandrashekhar Dubey Aged About 58 Years R/o Village Bharari, Tehsil Takhatpur, District Bilaspur Chhattisgarh 3. Sanjay Mishra S/o Kunjbhushan Mishra Aged About 53 Years Working As Time Keeper, In The Office Of Executive Engineer Water Resource Division Kota, R/o Village Paradiya, Tehsil Takhatpur, District Bilaspur Chhattisgarh 4. Geeta Ram Sahu S/o Late Nohar Ram Sahu Aged About 69 Years Retired Time Keeper, R/o Village Bharari, Tehsil Takhatpur, District Bilaspur Chhattisgarh 5. Smt. Keja Bai Koshley W/o Late Dhanush Ram Koshley Aged About 64 Years R/o Village Singhari, Tehsil And District Bilaspur Chhattisgarh ... Petitioners versus 1. State Of Chhattisgarh Through The Secretary, Water Resources Department Mahanadi Bhawan Atal Nagar Raipur Chhattisgarh 2. Engineer In Chief Water Resources Department Raipur District - Raipur Chhattisgarh 3. Chief Engineer Hasdev Kachhar Water Resource Department Bilaspur, District Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh 4. Executive Engineer Water Resource Division Kota, District Bilaspur Chhattisgarh 5. Executive Engineer Water Resource Division Pendraroad, District Gourela- Pendra-Marwahi Chhattisgarh 6. Joint Director Pension and Kosh Lekha Bilaspur, District Bilaspur Chhattisgarh ... Respondents For Petitioner : Mr. Hemant Kesharwani, Advocate For Respondent-State : Mr. Vinay Pandey, Dy. Adv. General Hon'ble Shri Parth Prateem Sahu, Judge ORDER ON BOARD 29/01/2026 PAWAN KUMAR JHA Digitally signed by PAWAN KUMAR JHA 2 / 3 1. With the consent of learned counsel appearing for the parties, this case is heard finally. 2. Learned counsel for petitioners submits that he is not pressing this writ petition on merit. However, he is making prayer for disposal of this writ petition in terms of order dated 12.06.2025 passed by this Court in WPS No.3862 of 2025 (Ishwar Lal Yadav Vs. State of Chhattisgarh & Ors) . 3. Learned counsel for the State submits that in view of limited prayer made by learned counsel for the petitioners, he is having no objection. 4. Coordinate Bench of this Court in WPS No.3862 of 2025 (supra) while considering the pleadings made in writ petition (WPS No.3862 of 2025), has made following observation: “2. Learned counsel appearing for the petitioner submitted that in similarly situated facts and the question of law, a batch of the writ petition, the leading case of which was Writ Petition (S) No. 2904 of 2005 [Dwarikadas Vaishnav & another Vs. State of Madhya Pradesh (now Chhattisgarh) and others] has been considered and decided by the Coordinate Bench of this Court vide order dated 05.12.2012, in which, the petitioners, in those cases, have been granted liberty to file a fresh representation before competent authority, therefore, this petition may also be disposed of in light of that order directing the respondents-Competent Authority to consider the case of the petitioner for revision of his pay scale in accordance with the Notification dated 14.10.1992 which was modified subsequently as 14.10.1982) issued by State of Madhya Pradesh, as the petitioner was earlier working as daily wage employee and subsequently, his services were regularized. 3. Learned counsel appearing for the State/respondents would submit that earlier the respondent/State had already considered the issue of the petitioner in the light of the judgment passed by State Administrative 3 / 3 Tribunal, Gwalior Bench in Laxmi Narayan Upadhyay v. State of M.P., however, he submits that if the petitioner file a fresh representation, the State will consider his case in light of the notification as mentioned herein above. 4. In view of the above submissions made by the parties, this petition is disposed of. If the petitioner files a fresh representation before the competent authority, the same shall be considered and decided by the competent authority in light of the aforesaid notification expeditiously preferably within a period of six months from the date of receipt/production of a certified copy of this order.” 5. In view of submission of learned counsel for the respective parties, this writ petition is also disposed off in terms of order passed in WPS No.3862 of 2025 (supra). Petitioners will be at liberty to submit representation before the competent authority and if such representation is submitted, competent authority shall consider and take decision on it, in accordance with law, expeditiously, preferably within a period of 06 months from the date of receipt of representation. 6. Accordingly, this writ petition is disposed of with the aforesaid observation and direction. Sd/- (Parth Prateem Sahu) pwn JUDGE