HC notice to TN Govt on plea over teachers recruitment
Madurai, Jan 5 (PTI) Madras High Court bench here has issued notice to the Tamil Nadu Government and others on a petition to quash a recent G.O. regarding filling up of teachings posts in school education through teacher eligibility test (TET). Admitting the petition, Justice V.Dhanabalan ordered notice to Chairman Teacher Recruitment Board, Principal Secretary, School Education, Director of School Education,and Chief Secretary, returnable within two weeks. Petitioners -- K.Somasundaran and two others -- submitted that the guidelines under TET was against law and there was no equality between the equal status of students. They submitted that selecting teachers through Competitive examination would be better. Even the selection of teachers through seniority was not a good proposition. Somasundaran said he had represented to the government seeking to cancel the November 15 last G.O.which stipulated TET for being eligible for appointment of Graduate teachers, but there was no response. In the meanwhile, there were reports about government considering seniority for selection of teachers. This also would not help many meritorious graduates. Hence the court should quash the G.O. and direct the government to recruit teachers only through competitive examinations, he said. PTI SSNNews : ibnLive (5.1.12)
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HC notice over filling up school teacher vacancies
MADURAI: The Madurai bench of the Madras high court on Thursday ordered notice to the state government on a petition seeking to fill up graduate assistant teacher posts only through competitive examination.Justice V Dhanapalan, before whom the matter came up, ordered notice which was returnable by two weeks. The petition was filed by K Somasundaram of Pudukottai and two others qualified with the B.Ed degree and was registered in the district employment exchange. They said the present government decided to fill nearly 8,000 vacant teacher posts of graduate assistants (6th to 8th standards) and post graduate assistants (9th to 12th standard). In this regard the state government also issued a Government Order (GO) stating that all posts would be filled through the teacher eligibility test based on guidelines of the National Council for Teacher Education
News : TimesOf India (6.1.12)
