JUDGMENT AND ORDER (ORAL)

The petitioner, by this application, filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India, has endeavoured for issuance of a writ in the nature of mandamus, directing the respondent authorities to provincialize the services of the petitioner as an Assistant Teacher (Science) of Jungle Block High School. The petitioner has also prayed for release of her service benefits w.e.f. 01.01.2013 at par with the other teaching and non-teaching staff members of the said school, who were allowed benefits of provincialization w.e.f. 01.01.2013.

2. It is the petitioner’s case that she was appointed as an Assistant Teacher (Science) of Jungle Block High School (hereinafter, referred to as ‘the School’), in the district of Nagaon, by the School Managing Committee, vide resolution No. 3, dated 30.11.1997. Accordingly, appointment order was issued on the said date and the petitioner joined in her duty on 02.12.1997. The petitioner has been serving in the said school as Science Teacher (Zoology and Botany) till date.

3. It is also the further case of the petitioner that before her appointment, one Abdul Khalek was appointed as a Science Teacher in Zoology, Geography and Math