JUDGMENT :

N. UNNI KRISHNAN NAIR, J.

None appears for the petitioner, on call. However, Mr. Dilip Mazumdar, learned Addl. Advocate General, Assam, assisted by Mr. R. Dhar, learned Addl. Senior Government Advocate, are present on behalf of all the respondents.

2. The petitioner, herein, by way of instituting the present proceeding, has presented a challenge to the speaking order, dated 22.11.2018, issued by the Under Secretary to the Government of Assam, PWRD, Dispur, communicating to the petitioner the rejection of his claim for appointment on compassionate ground by the State Level Committee in its meeting held on 19.06.2018, on the ground of non-availability of vacant post within the 5% quota mandated for appointment on compassionate ground and also the delay of 13 years occasioning since the death of his father, in harness.

3. As projected in the writ petition, the father of the petitioner Late th Madhab Ch. Bordoloi, while working as 4 Grade employee in the establishment of the Executive Engineer, Public Works Department, Nagaon State Road Division, Nagaon, had died-in-harness on 01.06.2005. The petitioner in pursuance of the death