Court bars teachers from taking tuitions, resorting to business; calls it misconduct
Sureshkumar.K@timesgroup.com
Chennai:10.04.2019
School and college teachers doing business/trade or taking tuition, even after school hours, is misconduct, ruled the Madras high court on Tuesday. It also directed the state government to create a helpline and display it prominently in schools to help parents and children file complaints on such matters and sexual harassment issues. Once a complaint is received, the government must take action in 24 hours, the court said.
Justice S M Subramaniam issued the directive while ruling on a petition filed by R Renganathan, a corporation school headmaster, challenging his transfer to another school which was just 2km away from his present school.
Ruing the growing indiscipline in government schools, more so among teachers, the judge said teachers were filing such unnecessary writ petitions without realizing that they were duty-bound to serve the public. The judge said that though as per rule 9 of Tamil Nadu Government Servants Conduct Rules a teacher could not engage themselves in any trade or business or undertake any employment, “the situation across the state is that most of the government teachers have engaged themselves in conducting tuitions/tutorials and private classes for monetary gain.”
FULL STOP: The HC also directed the state to create a helpline and display it in schools to help students file complaints against erring teachers
‘Public servants should display devotion to duty’
Chennai: “These teachers are receiving huge amount as remuneration from parents. It is most unfortunate to state that these teachers are soliciting students to join the tuition classes at their home or in the place organised by such teachers. Students, after school hours, are sometimes forced to attend tuition. Taking of tuition after school hours is also a misconduct. Public servant must show devotion to their duty. The profession of teaching is a noble one, teachers both inside the schools as well as outside the schools are bound to maintain honesty, integrity and clean life,” Justice Subramaniam said.
Apart from this, noting that such teachers are conducting agitations and dharnas during the eve of public examinations in order to ‘threaten the state government’ as well as public, the court said that such activities of teachers are to be viewed seriously and constant actions are to be taken by the competent authorities.
Noting that there is no adequate machinery to check these illegal activities and initiate action, Justice Subramaniam said, “higher officials, who have knowledge about these activities, are remaining as mute spectators. Those higher officials are also committing a misconduct by not initiating proper actions against these public servants.”
Observing that decent salary is being paid to these teachers by the government from the tax-payers money, the court added that they had high moral duty towards the society.
No spl class in summer, P 4 Higher officials who have knowledge about these activities, are remaining as mute spectators. They are also committing a misconduct by not initiating actions against these public servants, the HC said
Sureshkumar.K@timesgroup.com
Chennai:10.04.2019
School and college teachers doing business/trade or taking tuition, even after school hours, is misconduct, ruled the Madras high court on Tuesday. It also directed the state government to create a helpline and display it prominently in schools to help parents and children file complaints on such matters and sexual harassment issues. Once a complaint is received, the government must take action in 24 hours, the court said.
Justice S M Subramaniam issued the directive while ruling on a petition filed by R Renganathan, a corporation school headmaster, challenging his transfer to another school which was just 2km away from his present school.
Ruing the growing indiscipline in government schools, more so among teachers, the judge said teachers were filing such unnecessary writ petitions without realizing that they were duty-bound to serve the public. The judge said that though as per rule 9 of Tamil Nadu Government Servants Conduct Rules a teacher could not engage themselves in any trade or business or undertake any employment, “the situation across the state is that most of the government teachers have engaged themselves in conducting tuitions/tutorials and private classes for monetary gain.”
FULL STOP: The HC also directed the state to create a helpline and display it in schools to help students file complaints against erring teachers
‘Public servants should display devotion to duty’
Chennai: “These teachers are receiving huge amount as remuneration from parents. It is most unfortunate to state that these teachers are soliciting students to join the tuition classes at their home or in the place organised by such teachers. Students, after school hours, are sometimes forced to attend tuition. Taking of tuition after school hours is also a misconduct. Public servant must show devotion to their duty. The profession of teaching is a noble one, teachers both inside the schools as well as outside the schools are bound to maintain honesty, integrity and clean life,” Justice Subramaniam said.
Apart from this, noting that such teachers are conducting agitations and dharnas during the eve of public examinations in order to ‘threaten the state government’ as well as public, the court said that such activities of teachers are to be viewed seriously and constant actions are to be taken by the competent authorities.
Noting that there is no adequate machinery to check these illegal activities and initiate action, Justice Subramaniam said, “higher officials, who have knowledge about these activities, are remaining as mute spectators. Those higher officials are also committing a misconduct by not initiating proper actions against these public servants.”
Observing that decent salary is being paid to these teachers by the government from the tax-payers money, the court added that they had high moral duty towards the society.
No spl class in summer, P 4 Higher officials who have knowledge about these activities, are remaining as mute spectators. They are also committing a misconduct by not initiating actions against these public servants, the HC said
No comments:
Post a Comment