Don’t appoint new teachers till surplus deployed: HC to govt
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Madurai:12.04.2019
Stunned by disclosure that the government has been spending ₹444 crore every year on salaries of 6,300-odd surplus teachers in government and private-aided schools in the state, the Madras high court has ordered a freeze on fresh appointment of teachers.
Neither new appointments be made in government as well as private aided schools, nor approvals be granted for any appointments till surplus teachers coming under same managements are deployed, ruled a division bench of Justice N Kirubakaran and Justice S S Sundar.
Further, smelling a scam wherein aided schools might be making up records to show higher number of students than the actual strength in order to get more teacher vacancies approved, the bench ordered the government to implement bio-metric attendance for students as well as teachers in all aided schools.
The bench was hearing a batch of appeals against a single judge’s order in favour of teachers who had been seeking approval of their appointments to sanctioned vacancies in aided schools.
After it was brought to the notice of the court that as many as 116 teachers employed by a minority institution in Tuticorin were surplus, the court sought details of surplus teachers in both government and aided schools.
The government submitted that there were 1,079 surplus teachers in government schools and about 5,200 in aided schools.
“The monthly salary payable to the surplus teachers is about ₹37 crore a month, and it adds up to ₹444 crore per annum,” the court remarked.
Besides biometric attendance and freezing appointments, the court also directed that the government was not at liberty to reopen similar cases which had attained finality either before a single judge or a division bench.
“There is no prohibition for approval of teachers, where teachers or management concerned had obtained orders from this court and which reached finality for grant of approval,” the bench clarified.
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Madurai:12.04.2019
Stunned by disclosure that the government has been spending ₹444 crore every year on salaries of 6,300-odd surplus teachers in government and private-aided schools in the state, the Madras high court has ordered a freeze on fresh appointment of teachers.
Neither new appointments be made in government as well as private aided schools, nor approvals be granted for any appointments till surplus teachers coming under same managements are deployed, ruled a division bench of Justice N Kirubakaran and Justice S S Sundar.
Further, smelling a scam wherein aided schools might be making up records to show higher number of students than the actual strength in order to get more teacher vacancies approved, the bench ordered the government to implement bio-metric attendance for students as well as teachers in all aided schools.
The bench was hearing a batch of appeals against a single judge’s order in favour of teachers who had been seeking approval of their appointments to sanctioned vacancies in aided schools.
After it was brought to the notice of the court that as many as 116 teachers employed by a minority institution in Tuticorin were surplus, the court sought details of surplus teachers in both government and aided schools.
The government submitted that there were 1,079 surplus teachers in government schools and about 5,200 in aided schools.
“The monthly salary payable to the surplus teachers is about ₹37 crore a month, and it adds up to ₹444 crore per annum,” the court remarked.
Besides biometric attendance and freezing appointments, the court also directed that the government was not at liberty to reopen similar cases which had attained finality either before a single judge or a division bench.
“There is no prohibition for approval of teachers, where teachers or management concerned had obtained orders from this court and which reached finality for grant of approval,” the bench clarified.
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