NO COMPROMISE WITH QUALITY OF EDUCATION: SUPREME COURT TERMINTES SERVICES OF 10,324 TEACHERS OF TRIPURA


            Hon'ble Apex Court on 29-03-2017 upheld the decision of the High Court of Tripura wherein the services of 10,324 teachers were terminated by the division bench Headed by Chief Justice Deepak Gupta (now alleviated  to the supreme court ).
     After holding the hearing for two consecutive days, supreme court bench of Justices Adarsh Kumar Goel and U.U. Lalit rejected the special leave petition filed by the Tripura Govt and upheld the High Court order dated May 7, 2014.
      The High Court of Tripura had cancelled recruitment of all teachers made from march 2010 in undergraduate, graduate and post-graduate categories due to faulty recruitment process.
      The decision is a major blow to the government's  action wherein the recruitments have been made through back door channels. a similar case of the state of Himachal Pradesh qua PTA Teachers has also been pending before the supreme court whereby challenge has been preferred against the judgment of the High court of Himachal Pradesh and the status quo has been granted by the apex court.
    Needless to say that no such proper procedure has been followed in the recruitment of PTA Teachers in HP and thousands of the teachers have been rendering their services since 2006-07. government has also brought the services of PTA teachers on contract basis and some have been left because of the intervention of the supreme court.  
     The fate of the thousands of PTA Teachers of HP also depends upon the view of the supreme court and since the law has been settled by the supreme court in various case including Tripura case, one can anticipate the career of such teachers. transparency in the recruitment process is sine qua non for the development of nation and it is inescapable view that good teacher is a nation builder.

                                                                                             Kamlesh Saklani

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