1 2026:CGHC:16552 NAFR HIGH COURT OF CHHATTISGARH AT BILASPUR WPC No. 1638 of 2026 Taaj Mohammad S/o Alimuddin Ansari Aged About 49 Years R/o Village- Datima, P.S. Vishrampur Tahsil- Surajpur District- Surajpur, Chhattisgarh. ... Petitioner(s) versus 1 - South Eastern Coalfields Limited, (Secl) Through Its Chairman Cum Managing Director, Secl Headquarters, Bilaspur, District- Bilaspur (C.G.) 2 - General Manager South Eastern Coalfields Limited, Bishrampur Area District- Surajpur (C.G.) 3 - Assistant Manager (Survey) Land Revenue Department, Bishrampur Area, District- Surajpur (C.G.) .. Respondent(s) For Petitioner : Shri Sanjeev Kumar Sahu, Advocate. For Respondents- SECL : Shri Vinod Deshmukh, Advocate. Hon’ble Mr. Justice Amitendra Kishore Prasad Order on Board 10/04/2026 1. This Writ Petition has been filed by the petitioner against the inaction on the part of respondent authorities in not providing employment to the petitioner on account of land acquired bearing khasra No.135/9 ग/2, Rakba 0.213 and khasra No. 135/ 9 ख / 2, Rakba 0.405 of the petitioner for the purposes of AVINASH SHARMA Digitally signed by AVINASH SHARMA Date: 2026.04.15 10:47:37 +0530 2 coal mining by SECL Department. 2. By way of this Petition, the petitioner has prayed for the following reliefs:- 10.1 The Hon'ble Court may kindly be pleased to Issue an appropriate writ, order or direction directing the respondents to consider and decide the representation (Annexure P/1) submitted by the petitioner within stipulated period of time. 10.2 The Hon'ble Court may kindly be pleased to Issue an appropriate writ, order or direction directing the respondents to grant employment to the petitioner or an eligible member of his family in accordance with the M.P. Resettlement Policy, 1991 and amendment 1995. 10.3 That, Hon'ble Court may kindly be pleased to passed in identical matter bearing Writ Petition (C) No.1311/2026 and other connected writ petition, the Hon'ble Court has passed order on 25.03.2026 and the case of petitioner is also identical to the said order. 10.4. Any other relief may kindly be pleased granted as it may deem fit and proper in the facts and circumstances of the case. Cost of the petition. 3. Facts in a nutshell are that the petitioner belongs to a family whose land bearing khasra No. 135/9 ग/2, रकबा 0.213 and khasra No. 135/ 9 ख /2, रकबा 0.405 was acquired for coal mining purposes by South Eastern Coalfields Limited (SECL). At the time of acquisition of the said land, the affected landowners including the petitioner were assured that one eligible member of each displaced family would be provided employment as per the M.P. Resettlement Policy, 1991 and its amendment of 1995 and for the same purpose, the respondent authorities have passed a communication 3 dated 20.03.2015 and 24.03.2015. The Petitioner has submitted all the requisite documents and he fulfills all the eligibility conditions prescribed under the said policy for grant of employment. Despite acquisition of the petitioner's land and the assurance given under the resettlement policy, the petitioner has not been provided employment till date. The petitioner submitted a representation and thereafter reminder letters before the respondent authorities requesting them to grant employment, however, the respondents have not taken any action on the said representation. Hence this Petition. 4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner has filed representation (Annexure P/1) for grant of employment in lieu of the acquired land, however, till date the said representation has not yet been decided by the respondent authorities. Therefore, he prays that this Writ Petition may be disposed of while directing the respondent authorities to decide the representation filed by the petitioner as expeditiously as possible in a time bound manner which learned counsel for the respondents-SECL does not object. 5. On the other hand, learned counsel for respondents-SECL submits that the representation filed by the petitioner will be decided expeditiously in accordance with law. 6. Considering the submissions made by the parties as also the limited prayer made by the petitioner, without entering into the merits of the case, this Court deems it appropriate to direct the petitioner to file a fresh 4 representation along with relevant documents in this regard within a period of 15 days from the date of receipt of copy of this order before the respondent authorities and in turn, the respondent authorities shall consider and decide the said representation by passing a reasoned and speaking order within a period of 90 days from the date of receipt of such representation, in accordance with law after giving due opportunity of hearing to the petitioner. Ordered accordingly. 7. With the aforesaid direction, this Writ Petition is disposed of. Sd/- (Amitendra Kishore Prasad) Judge Avinash