D/L- 8 28/07/2026 Ct. No.-10 Aritra In the High Court at Calcutta Circuit Bench at Jalpaiguri Appellate Side WPA 1316 of 2026 Bidyut Kumar Biswas Vs. The State of West Bengal & Ors. Mr. Debajit Kundu ….for the petitioner Mr. Kunaljit Bhattacharjee, AGP, Ms. Esha Acharya ….for the State The primary grievance of the petitioner is that though the post graduate scale of pay has been granted in favour of the petitioner but the arrears has not yet been disbursed in favour of the petitioner. The petitioner claims to have submitted several representations before the respondent authorities praying for releasing the arrear payment of higher scale of pay since November, 1999 to October, 2014. The learned advocate appearing for the petitioner submits that in spite of receipt of several representations, no decision has been communicated by the respondent authorities till date. Mr. Bhattacharjee, learned Additional Government Pleader submits that the decision on the representation dated December 17, 2025 shall be communicated to the petitioner within the time limit as may be fixed by this Court. 2 Without entering into the merits of the claim made by the petitioner in the representation dated December 17, 2025, WPA 1316 of 2026 stands disposed of by directing the District Inspector of Schools (S.E.), Chooch Behar, being the respondent no.3 to consider the representation of the petitioner dated December 17, 2025 and to dispose of the same by passing a reasoned order after affording an opportunity of hearing to the petitioner, which shall be communicated to the petitioner immediately thereafter. The entire exercise shall be completed by the respondent no.3 as expeditiously as possible but positively within a period of 6 weeks from the receipt of a server copy of this order together with a copy of the representation dated December 17, 2025. At the hearing it will be open to the petitioner to place reliance upon any Government Orders, Circulars, orders passed by the Court in support of the claim. There will be no order as to costs. All parties shall act on the server copy of this order duly downloaded from the official website of this Court. (Hiranmay Bhattacharyya, J.)