1 2026:CGHC:10201 NAFR HIGH COURT OF CHHATTISGARH AT BILASPUR WPS No.2112 of 2026 1 - Kamla Devi Ayam W/o Shri Anand Kumar Ayam Aged About 34 Years Presently Working As Cook At Kasturba Gandhi Girls Hostel Wadrafnagar, District Balrampur- Ramanujganj (C.G.) 2 - Rina Devi W/o Shri Tiju Ram Aged About 41 Years Presently Working As Assistant Cook At Kasturba Gandhi Girls Hostel Kusmi, District- Balrampur- Ramanujganj (C.G.) 3 - Smt. Sumitra Minj W/o Shri Amit Minj Aged About 39 Years Presently Working As Assistant Cook At Kasturba Gandhi Girls Hostel Rajpur, District- Balrampur- Ramanujganj (C.G.) 4 - Uttapatti Devi W/o Shri Anil Kushwaha Aged About 44 Years Presently Working As Assistant Cook At Kasturba Gandhi Girls Hostel Ramanujganj, District- Balrampur- Ramanujganj (C.G.) 5 - Subachani Netam W/o Shri Amar Lal Aged About 35 Years Presently Working As Assistant Cook At Kasturba Gandhi Girls Hostel Wadrafnagar, District- Balrampur- Ramanujganj (C.G.) SISTLA NEELIMA VISHNU PRIYA Digitally signed by SISTLA NEELIMA VISHNU PRIYA Date: 2026.02.28 19:05:34 +0530 2 6 - Shanti D/o Shri Kamal Sai Aged About 52 Years Presently Working As Assistant Cook At Kasturba Gandhi Girls Hostel Rajpur, District- Balrampur- Ramanujganj (C.G.) ... Petitioners versus 1 - State Of Chhattisgarh Through The Secretary, School Education Department, Mantralaya, Mahanadi Bhawan, Nava Raipur Atal Nagar, District Raipur (C.G.) 2 - Mission Director Samagra Shiksha, Raipur, District Raipur (C.G.) 3 - Collector- Cum- District Mission Director Balrampur- Ramanujganj, District Balrampur- Ramanujganj (C.G.) 4 - District Education Officer-Cum-District Mission Coordinator Balrampur- Ramanujganj, District Balrampur- Ramanujganj (C.G.) 5 - Superintendant Kasturba Gandhi Girls Hostel Wadrafnagar, District- Balrampur- Ramanujganj (C.G.) 6 - Superintendent Kasturba Gandhi Girls Hostel Rajpur, District- Balrampur- Ramanujganj (C.G.) 7 - Superintendant Kasturba Gandhi Girls Hostel Kusmi, District- Balrampur- Ramanujganj (C.G.) 8 - Superintendant Kasturba Gandhi Girls Hostel Ramanujganj, District- Balrampur- Ramanujganj (C.G.) ... Respondents 3 (Cause title taken from Case information System) For Petitioners : Shri CJK Rao, Advocate. For State/Respondent No.1 : Shri Virendra Verma, PL. For Respondents No.2 to 8 : Ms. Akanksha Jain, Advocate. Hon'ble Shri Justice Parth Prateem Sahu Order on Board 27.02.2026 1. The Petitioners have filed this Petition for the following reliefs:- “10.1 That, this Hon'ble Court may kindly be pleased to direct the respondent authorities to enhance the salary as per the notification dated 29.09.2023 and further direct the respondent authorities to pay Rs. 13,200/- monthly with all consequential benefits. 10.2. That, this Hon'ble Court may kindly be pleased to grant any other relief as it may deems fit and appropriate.” 2. Learned counsel for the Petitioners submits that the Petitioners are engaged as Peon, Watchman and Cook in different hostels run under the Samagra Shiksha Mission. The salary of the Petitioners has been enhanced from time to time and according to the last enhancement, the Petitioners are entitled to Rs. 13,200/-; however, they are being paid only Rs. 8,369/-. Being aggrieved thereby, they made oral requests, but the same were not considered; hence, the present Writ Petition has been filed. He further submits that since the decision is to be taken at the end of the Respondents, the Petitioners may be permitted to submit a comprehensive 4 representation along with all relevant documents and a direction may be issued to Respondents No. 3 & 4 to consider and decide the representation to be submitted by the Petitioners at the earliest within a specified time frame. 3. Learned Counsel appearing for Respondents No. 2 to 8 submits that though in the order the enhanced salary is mentioned as Rs. 13,200/-, it has also been stated therein that the salary is to be paid at the Collector rate. 4. At this juncture, learned Counsel for the Petitioners submits that the Collector rate has also been enhanced. 5. Learned Counsel for Respondents No. 2 to 8 submits that in the facts of the case, she has no objection to the limited prayer made by learned Counsel for the Petitioners for submitting a representation to be decided by Respondents No. 3 & 4. 6. Upon consideration of the submissions made by learned Counsel for the respective parties and further considering that a decision is yet to be taken by the Respondents with regard to the rate of salary to be paid to the Petitioners under the enhanced rate, I find it appropriate to dispose of this Petition and accordingly dispose it, at this stage, by permitting the Petitioners to submit a comprehensive representation along with all supporting documents. In the event such representation is submitted, Respondents No. 3 & 4 shall consider and decide the same in 5 accordance with law, expeditiously, preferably within a period of three months from the date of receipt of the representation. Sd/- (Parth Prateem Sahu) Judge Priya