JUDGMENT :

AKIL ABDUL HAMID KURESHI, J.

1. This petition arises in the following background:

Petitioner's father Late Amalendu Paul was working as a Helper Grade-II with the Executive Engineer, Public Works Department (Electricals), Gokulnagar when he died on 06.12.2003, still in service. The deceased left behind his widow Smt. Tapati Paul and the present petitioner Nayan Paul who was aged about 4(four) years at the time of the death of his father. The petitioner's mother made an application on 07.05.2004 for being appointed on compassionate grounds. It appears that the mother of the petitioner was not qualified for being appointed in the Government job and the Government, therefore, provided one time financial assistance in the form of payment of Rs. 50,000 (rupees fifty thousand) to the family. The mother of the petitioner did not accept such assistance. The petitioner crossed the age of 18 years on 14.08.2017. In the meantime he had acquired the educational qualification of H.S. (+2 stage). On 30.06.2018 the petitioner applied for compassionate appointment under the die-in-harness scheme of the State of Tripura. Since the respondents did not dispose of the application within a reas