STATE OF BIHAR vs BIHAR SECONDARY TEACHERS STRUGGLE COMMITTEE, MUNGER

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2019 Supreme(SC) 571

A.M.SAPRE, UDAY UMESH LALIT
STATE OF BIHAR – Appellant
Versus
BIHAR SECONDARY TEACHERS STRUGGLE COMMITTEE, MUNGER – Respondent

Advocates Appeared:
For the Petitioner:Mr. Gopal Singh, Mr. Yasharth Kant, Mr. Krishnam Misra, Mr. Nishant Singh, Mr. Manish Kumar, Mr. Shivam Singh, Mr. Aditya Raina, Mr. Kumar Milind, Mr. Udian Sharma, Mr. Shreyas Jain, Mr. Arjun Khazanchi, Advocates
For the Respondent:Mr. Animesh Kumar, Mr. Murari Kumar, Mr. Neeraj Shekhar, Mr. Sumit Kumar, Mr. Rohit Kumar Singh, Mr. Ashutosh Thakur, Mr. Rana Prashant, Mr. Gaurav Yadava, Mr. Karunakar Mahalik, Mr. Karunakar Mahalik, Mr. Chandra Shekhar Suman, Mr. Avdhesh Kumar Singh, Mr. Anish Kumar Gupta, Ms. Rita Gupta, Mr. Ajay Bansal, Mr. Gaurav Yadava, Mr. Vijay Pratap Yadav, Mr. Karunakar Mahalik, Mr. Manjit Kr.Pathak, Mr. Rajiv Ranjan Dwivedi, Mr. Anish Kr.Mishra, Mr. Animesh Upadhyay, Mr. Amit Pawan, Mr. Gaurav Yadava, Mr. Durga Dutt, Mr. Durga Dutt, Mr. Rohit Priyadarshi, Mr. Jitendra Nath Pathak, Dr. Gajendra Pd.Singh, Mr. Prashant Bhushan, Mr. Prashant Bhushan, Mr. Suyash Srivastava, Mr. Jitendra Kumar, Mr. Abhay Kumar, Mr. Saurabh Mishra, Mr. Vineet Kumar Singh, Ms. Neetu jain, Mr. Avishkar Singhvi, Mr. Abhay Kumar, Mr. Saurabh Mishra, Mr. Gaurav Yadava, Mr. Abhishek Yadav, Mr. Amit Kumar Srivastava, Mr. Amit Wadhwa, Mr. C.K.Sharma, Mr. Sanjay Kumar Hadala, Mr. Sanjeev Kumar, Mr. Gaurav Teotia, Ms. Sofia Begum, Mr. Sanjeev Yadav, Dr. Vinod Kumar Tewari, Mr. Rakesh Mishra, Mr. Rana Ranjit Singh, Mr. Vivek Kumar Singh, Mr. Ravish Singh, Ms. Akanksha Singh, Mr. Suman Kumar Divakar, Mr. Pushkar Anand, Ms. Chhaya Kumari, Mr. Rajnish Bhaskar, Mr. Ajay Kumar Singh, Mr. Abhishek Gupta, Mr. Satyendra K.Srivastav, Mr. Ramesh Kr.Tiwari, Mr. Vinay Kumar, Mr. Manoj Dwedi, Mr. Manjit Pathak, Mr. Keshav Ranjan, Mr. Lav Kumar Aggarwal, Mr. Krishna Kumar Singh, Mr. Rakesh Kumar Singh, Mr. Ashok Anand, Mr. Bipin Bihari Singh, Mr. Somanatha Padhan, Mr. S. K. Verma, Mr. Rahul Kumar, Mr. Sukesh Kr.Mishra, Mr. Pankaj Kumar Mishra, Mr. Ranjit Kumar Sharma, Mr. Satyajeet Kumar, Mr. Anand Nandan, Mr. Rameshwar Prasad Goyal, Mr. Akshat Srivastava, Mr. Rohit Rajershi, Mr. Dhirendra Kumar Mishra, Mr. Rameshwar Prasad Goyal, Mr. R.K.Singh, Ms. Neeraj Singh, Ms. Ritu Reniwal, Mr. Amrendra Kumar Singh, Ms. P.Dayal, Mr. Rameshwar Prasad Goyal, Mr. Md.Izhar Alam, Mr. M.P.Singh, Mr. Rameshwar Prasad Goyal, Mr. Kumar Gaurav, Mr. Robin Khokhar, Mr. B.N.Dubey, Mr. Ravi Chandra Prakash, Mr. Sushil Kumar, Mr. Ashok Kumar Upadhya, Mrs. Swarupama Chaturvedi, Mr. Rajnish Kumar Jha, Mr. Mahendra Kumar, Ms. Neha Jain, Mr. Anil Kumar Jha, Mr. Atul Jha, Mr. Santosh Kumar Pandey, Mr. Dinesh Kr.Tiwary, Ms. Shama Sharma, Mr. U.S.Aggarwal, Mr. Raghwendra Tiwari, Mr. Santosh Kumar Tripathi, Mr. Dinesh Kr.Tiwary, Mr. Ramesh Thakur, Mr. Pramod Kr.Singh, Mr. Santosh Kumar Tripathi, Mr. Dinesh Kr.Tiwary, Mr. Chandan Kr., Ms. Jaya Kumari, Ms. Rajmala Dohare, Mr. Santosh Kumar Tripathi, Mr. Saurabh Mishra, , Advocates

JUDGMENT

Uday Umesh Lalit, J.

1. Leave granted.

2. These appeals are directed against common judgment and order dated 31.10.2017 passed by the High Court of Judicature at Patna in Civil Writ Jurisdiction Case No.21199 of 2013 and all connected matters.

3. In 1981, all non-Government Secondary Schools were nationalized and the management was taken over by State of Bihar. Consequently, all teaching and non-teaching staff were given salaries and emoluments at the Government scales. With the schemes like Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, introduction of Article 21A in the Constitution and coming into force of the Right of Children to Free and Compulsion Education Act, 2009 (‘RTE Act’, for short), the State was required to induct large number of teachers in order to meet the required obligations. These teachers employed at Panchayat, Nagar Panchayat and Municipal levels were not given same salaries and emoluments like the teachers who were paid at the Government scales. The petitions seeking same salaries and emoluments on the principle of “equal pay for equal work” filed by the latter categor

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2019 Supreme(SC) 571

A.M.SAPRE, UDAY UMESH LALITSTATE OF BIHAR – AppellantVersusBIHAR SECONDARY TEACHERS STRUGGLE COMMITTEE, MUNGER – Respondent

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A.M.SAPRE, UDAY UMESH LALIT
STATE OF BIHAR – Appellant
Versus
BIHAR SECONDARY TEACHERS STRUGGLE COMMITTEE, MUNGER – Respondent