JUDGMENT :

1. By way of this petition, the petitioner has prayed for granting her regular pay scale of Rs.2550-3200 as class-IV employee instead of monthly fixed amount of Rs.1500/- from 12.8.2004 i.e. date of her joining and to pay the arrears with 12% interest thereon. The husband of the petitioner was serving with the office of Sub Registrar, Cooperative Societies, Harij as Peon who died on 15.10.2000 while in service.

2. Pursuant to policy of the State Government, the petitioner applied for appointment on compassionate ground. After examining the case of the petitioner, the Gujarat Subordinate Service Selection Board (for short, ‘GSSSB’), who is authority to examine the cases of dependents of deceased employee to be appointed on compassionate ground, after she was found fulfilling the criteria according to the scheme recommended for appointment vide letter dated 26.2.2004 to the office of the Commissioner, Gujarat Vigilance Commission, Gandhinagar. The copy of the said letter is annexed with the petition at page No.6. The contents of the letter reflects that since she had crossed the upper age limit for the appointment to the post she was offered, in view of Government Resolution