Asok Kumar Ganguly, J.: This appeal has been filed by the West Bengal Central School Service Commission impugning the judgment and order dated 18th May, 2000 passed by the learned Single Judge in W. P. No. 2030 of 2000. The relevant facts of the case out of which the present appeal arises are noted below.

2. The respondent, viz. Smt. Gita Guha (Dasgupta), filed a writ petition praying, inter alia, for a writ in the nature of Mandamus and for a direction upon the West Bengal Regional School Service Commission (Southern Region) to issue an appointment letter in her favour and treat the respondent as having been appointed as a Head Mistress on and from the date when the other successful candidates have been appointed by the said Commission and also for fixation of the scale of pay of the respondent as Head Mistress and for other consequential reliefs. The claim of the respondent is that she passed the School Final Examination in the year 1971 from the West Bengal Board of Secondary Education. Thereafter, she passed the Pre-University Examination in Science stream in the year 1973 from the University of Calcutta and she also passed the B.Sc. Examination from the same University