SC issues notice to Tripura govt on teachers' plea against their termination orders
Jul 16, 2024
New Delhi [India], July 16 : The Supreme Court on Tuesday issued notice to the Tripura government on a plea filed by around 79 under-graduate teachers from the State challenging their termination orders issued by the State in 2017 and 2020.
The teachers from Tripura moved to the top court saying their termination orders were "unlawful and unconstitutional".
A bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Justice PB Varale issued a notice to the Tripura government and sought its response to the plea.
The petition said in 2014, a division bench of the High Court of Tripura had declared a certain Employment Policy, 2003 issued by the State government, "bad in law" and set-aside appointment of more than 10,000 teachers allegedly made thereunder, pursuant to which the petitioners were also terminated.
The teachers have questioned the applicability of the said policy to the services thereof and urged that they were recruited in strict adherence to the recruitment rules for the time being in force, therefore falling out of the realm of the 2014 High Court Judgment.
The petitioners said that they were never put to notice of the proceedings before the High Court and the judgment had been delivered behind their backs.
The petition filed through advocates Amrit Lal Saha, TK Nayak, and Aaditya Mishra said that a massive scam is being perpetrated by the Tripura government.
The plea claimed the employment and salary codes of all such terminated teachers have still been kept active and therefore, the monthly remuneration of such teachers is being debited to the state-exchequer and misappropriated by certain corrupt officials/bureaucrats.
The petitioners have further disclosed that the Principal Accountant General (Addl.), Tripura is investigating the alleged fraud.
The petitioners have also highlighted the dilapidated condition of the school education system in the State wherein the brunt of the acute shortage of teachers is being borne by innocent students.
Earlier 700 teachers also moved the apex court with the same issue.
