HC declines govt plea for extension
Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, March 15
Is it the end of the road for nearly 15,000 guest teachers in Haryana? For, the Punjab and Haryana High Court today turned down an application filed by the State of Haryana seeking six months’ extension for them.
The orders, by the Division Bench of Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justice Kanwaljit Singh Ahluwalia, were pronounced in the open court today.
The ruling comes just about 15 days before the expiring of deadline for the discontinuation of guest teachers.
The high court in March last year had ruled, “While it will be open to the State to extend the tenure of the guest teachers, at all levels, such extensions shall not be beyond March 31, 2012.
“In fact, on the expiry of the said date, the services of all the guest teachers shall be understood to have lapsed in terms of the present order and it will not be open for the State to continue any such guest teacher in service.”
The Bench had added, “There will be no further appointment of guest teachers during the next academic year starting from April 1, 2011, and the shortfall, if any, in the number of teachers will have to be met with by the State by undertaking a precise and accurate exercise of posting and re-posting of teachers according to the needs of each school….”
Going into the background of the issue, the high court had also observed, “To tide over the huge shortage of teachers, at different levels, in the schools of Haryana, a policy decision was taken by the State on December 17, 2005, for the appointment of guest teachers.
“In terms of the policy, appointments were to be made, at the first instance, from retired teachers who belong to the same village. Such guest teachers were to be allocated limited duties by specifying the number of classes that they would be required to hold. Remuneration was to be paid to them, on the basis of classes held, at specified rates for each class or lecture. Under the policy, the guest teachers were to continue till the end of academic year i.e. March 31, 2006….”
Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, March 15
Is it the end of the road for nearly 15,000 guest teachers in Haryana? For, the Punjab and Haryana High Court today turned down an application filed by the State of Haryana seeking six months’ extension for them.
The orders, by the Division Bench of Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justice Kanwaljit Singh Ahluwalia, were pronounced in the open court today.
The ruling comes just about 15 days before the expiring of deadline for the discontinuation of guest teachers.
The high court in March last year had ruled, “While it will be open to the State to extend the tenure of the guest teachers, at all levels, such extensions shall not be beyond March 31, 2012.
“In fact, on the expiry of the said date, the services of all the guest teachers shall be understood to have lapsed in terms of the present order and it will not be open for the State to continue any such guest teacher in service.”
The Bench had added, “There will be no further appointment of guest teachers during the next academic year starting from April 1, 2011, and the shortfall, if any, in the number of teachers will have to be met with by the State by undertaking a precise and accurate exercise of posting and re-posting of teachers according to the needs of each school….”
Going into the background of the issue, the high court had also observed, “To tide over the huge shortage of teachers, at different levels, in the schools of Haryana, a policy decision was taken by the State on December 17, 2005, for the appointment of guest teachers.
“In terms of the policy, appointments were to be made, at the first instance, from retired teachers who belong to the same village. Such guest teachers were to be allocated limited duties by specifying the number of classes that they would be required to hold. Remuneration was to be paid to them, on the basis of classes held, at specified rates for each class or lecture. Under the policy, the guest teachers were to continue till the end of academic year i.e. March 31, 2006….”