1 2026:CGHC:10188 NAFR HIGH COURT OF CHHATTISGARH AT BILASPUR WPS No. 1731 of 2026 1 - Pratosh Kumar Chandel S/o Shri Raghuvanghi Prasad Chandel Aged About 40 Years R/o Village- Parasdiha Tehsil- Wadrafnagar Distt- Balrampur (C.G.) Posted At Govt Girls Middle School Barti Kalan 2 - Nishant Kumar Patel S/o Krishna Kumar Patel Aged About 34 Years R/o Village Parasdiha Tehsil- Wadrafnagar Dist- Balrampur (C.G.) Post- At Govt- Boys Middle School Barti Kalan 3 - Rajeshwar Prasad Kushwaha S/o Kabir Das Kushwaha Aged About 42 Years R/o Kogwar Tehsil - Tehsil- Wadrafnagar Dist- Balrampur (C.G. Posted At - Govt Boys Middle School Tisiyadand 4 - Bal Govind Yadav S/o Vijay Nath Yadav Aged About 36 Years R/o Karkapa Tehsil- Balrampur Dist- Balrampur (C.G.) Posted At Govt- Boys Middle School Batidand 5 - Vikas Chand Patel S/o Krishna Prasad Patel Aged About 38 Years R/o Village- Rampur Tehsil Pratappur Dist- Surajpur Posted At Govt- Mid. School Bonga 6 - Anup Chand Jaiswal S/o Mewa Lal Jaiswal Aged About 38 Years Village- Ramesh Pur Wadrafnagar Dist- Balrampur (C.G.) Posted At Govt Mid- School Raghunath Nagar ALFIZA BAIG Digitally signed by ALFIZA BAIG Date: 2026.02.28 11:56:33 +0530 2 7 - Ishwar Lal Dinkar S/o Gokul Prasad Dinkar Aged About 38 Years R/o Bishrampur Dist- Surajpur Posted At Govt- Middle School Bonga ... Petitioners versus 1 - State Of Chhattisgarh Through- The Secretary School Education Department Mahanadi Bhawan, Mantralaya Nava Raipur, Atal Nagar District- Raipur (C.G.) 2 - Director Public Instruction Directorate Indrawati Bhawan Nava Raipur Atal Nagar District- Raipur (C.G.) 3 - Joint Divisional Director (Education) Surajpur Division District- Surajpur (C.G.) 4 - District Education Officer Surajpur District- Surajpur (C.G.) ... Respondents For Petitioners : Mr. Sahdev Yadav, Advocate For Respondents- State : Mr. Siddharth Sharma, Panel lawyer SB: Hon'ble Shri Parth Prateem Sahu, Judge ORDER ON BOARD 27/02 /2026 1. The petitioners have filed this writ petition seeking following reliefs:- “10.1 That, this Hon’ble Court may kindly be pleased to set aside the gradation list (Annexure P-1), whereby the petitioners been wrongly placed at the seniority. 10.2 That, this Hon'ble Court may kindly be pleased to direct the respondent authorities to revision of the seniority list to ensure that direct appointees of 2013 are placed above those promoted in 2015 with all consequential benefits. 3 10.3 That the Hon’ble Court may grant service weightage in the form of annual increments for the period of service exceeding two years prior to the date of absorption, thereby ensuring that the pay structure is commensurate with the total years of dedicated service. 10.4 That, this Hon’ble Court may kindly be pleased to grant any other relief as it may deems fit and appropriate.” 2. After arguing for sometime, learned counsel for the petitioners submits that as the petitioners have already submitted representation for redressal of their grievance as raised in this writ petition before the Respondent No. 3 vide Annexure P-6 dated 14.01.2025, therefore, direction be issued to the Respondent No. 3 to take decision on the representation submitted by the petitioners at the earliest within specified time. 3. On the other hand, learned counsel for the Respondents/State submits that in view of the limited prayer made by the counsel for petitioners, he is having no objection. 4. I have heard learned counsel for the parties and perused the documents placed on record. 5. On due consideration of the submission of counsel for the respective parties, facts and circumstances of the case, nature of grievance raised by the petitioner, without entering into the merits of the claim of petitioners, this writ petition at this stage is disposed of directing the Respondent No. 3 to take decision on the pending representation vide Annexure P-6 dated 14.01.2025 in accordance with law, expeditiously, preferably within a period of 03 months from the date of receipt of Order. 4 6. With the aforesaid observation and direction, this writ petition stands disposed of. sd/- (Parth Prateem Sahu) Judge alfiza