High court stays regularisation of part-time teachers

ALLAHABAD: The Allahabad high court has stayed regularisation of services of part-time lecturers of government-aided degree colleges of the state.

Hearing a petition filed by Jitendra Kumar and nine others, a division bench comprising chief justice Dhananjaya Yeshwant Chandrachud and justice Dilip Gupta ruled that the “state would be at liberty to take steps for processing the absorption of teachers pursuant to the directions contained in the communication dated June 6, 2014 of director of higher education, final orders for absorption shall not be passed till the next date of listing of the petition.”

The court also fixed July 31, 2014 as the date for final hearing on the petition.

Following the order, the regularisation of around 900 parttime lecturers is now hanging in the balance.

The part-time lecturers were appointed in government-aided degree colleges through a government order dated April 7, 1998.

However through another government order dated March 29, 2011, these appointments were discontinued, but the same could not get implemented.

The state gover nment on June 6, 2014 issued orders for the regularisation of these part-time lecturers.

Counsel for the petitioner Seemant Singh said since 1998 around 888 such part-time lecturers had been appointed till date in different degree colleges on fixed honorariums but their absorption had now been stayed by the high court.

THE STATE GOVERNMENT ON JUNE 6, 2014 ISSUED ORDERS FOR THE REGULARISATION OF THESE PART-TIME LECTURERS