1. By presenting this writ petition, the petitioner has impugned an order passed by the Registrar, National Institute of Technology Durgapur (hereafter the NIH) dated July 1, 2014. The order reads as follows:

“Dear Madam,

1. Reference is made to NIT Durgapur letter no. NITD/ADMN/2104, dated 22.06.2006.

2. This is to inform you that your services are no longer required by the Institute from 5th August, 2014.

3. This may please be treated as a notice for the purpose stated above.

4. This issues with the approval of Competent Authority.

Thanking you,

Yours faithfully,

Sd/- Illegible

Registrar”

2. The case of the petitioner, as pleaded in the writ petition and the affidavit-in reply, is that her husband Pralay Kumar Lahiri (since deceased) was serving the NIH as a professor in the M.E. Department; that while serving as such, he passed away on May 8, 2006 leaving behind him the petitioner (widow) and their twin children (a son and a daughter, aged about 15 years) as the surviving legal heirs; that faced with severe crisis, both mental and financial, the petitioner (a postgraduate in Modern History) had immediately thereafter applied for compassionate appointment on May 12, 20