Early Times Report
Srinagar, Feb 4 : The state high court today directed education department to implement its judgment about screening test of Rehbar-e-Taleem (ReT) teachers in letter and spirit and also asked the counsel of education department to come up with its stand on tomorrow.
"You go by the judgment in letter and spirit and classify these degrees," Justice M H Attar said.
During the proceedings, the court also pulled up the teachers over their street protests on the issue. "This is not the way to get grievances redressed. What will be the impact of this act on the students? If they have any grievance, they have remedy to come to the court of law", the court observed.
The court directed the AGG, representing education department, to seek instruction about the screening test and deferred the hearing forFriday.
The court was hearing petition filed by ReT teachers through their union. It was argued that asking all the ReT teachers to sit in the screening test was against the court verdict as well as the rules.
"The petitioners have completed their degrees through regular process and from recognized universities, so the question of intermingling and directing all ReTs to face the screening test is contrary to the law and the court judgment," they said and prayed the court to quash the December 29, 2015 order, asking all teachers to sit in the screening test.
They said the petitioners way back in the year 2000 were engaged on the basis of April 28, 2000 order and thereafter regularized as per the scheme introduced by the government and orders passed time and again.
They submitted that the commissioner secretary was directed to constitute a committee of expert members to examine and assess the certificates of ReT teachers and after scrutiny of the same, he was asked to identify the ReT teachers with fake certificates.
Those found having degrees from the unrecognized universities were to be put to screening test and those who failed were to be terminated, they said.
"The Committee was required to frame a list of all those candidates whose degrees were found fake and had obtained appointment on the basis of such degrees. Instead, the commissioner secretary has directed all the ReT teachers to appear in the screening test which neither is warranted under law nor was the direction of the high court," the petitioners said.
"So, in this backdrop, the government is discriminating against them," they alleged. |
