Sunil Kumar Yadav vs State of Jharkhand

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2026 Supreme(SC) 502

PANKAJ MITHAL, S. V. N. BHATTI
Sunil Kumar Yadav – Appellant
Versus
State of Jharkhand – Respondent

Advocates Appeared:
For the Appellants : Mr. Colin Gonsalves, Sr. Adv. Ms. Tanya Agarwal, Adv. Mr. Krishna Kumar Keshav, Adv. Mrs. Shubhangi Tuli, AOR Mr. Anilendra Pandey, AOR Mr. Rajeev Kumar Ranjan, Adv. Mr. Ashutosh Gupta, Adv. Mr. Kamlesh Upadhyay, Adv. Ms. Aarati Sah, Adv. Mr. Animesh Shukla, Adv. Mr. Narendra Kumar, Adv. Mr. Santosh Kumar Vishwakarma, Adv. Mr. Santosh Kumar Pandey, AOR Mr. Colin Gonsalves, Sr. Adv. Ms. Tanya Agarwal, AOR Mr. Krishna Kumar Keshav, Adv. Mr. Sandeep Jha, Adv. Mr. Ram Ekbal Roy, Adv. Mr. Binay Kumar Das, AOR Mr. Rajiv Ranjan Dwivedi, AOR Mr. Prashant Bhushan, AOR Ms. Alice Raj, Adv. Mr. Rahul Gupta, Adv. Mr. Gopal Sankaranarayanan, Sr. Adv. Dr. Rajiv Nanda, Sr. Adv. Mr. Brajesh Pandey, Adv. Mr. Shashank Ratnoo, Adv. Mr. Shantanu Lakhotia, Adv. Mr. Divyaveer Singh, Adv. Mr. Kanchan Kumar Jha, Adv. Ms. Divya Negi, Adv. M/s. Brajesh Pandey & Associates, AOR
For the Respondents: Mr. Arunab Choudhary, Sr. A.A.G. Mr. Vishnu Sharma, Adv. Ms. Madhusmita Bora, AOR Mr. Pawan Kishore Singh, Adv. Ms. Pavithra V., Adv. Mr. Krishna Murari, Adv. Mr. Satya Mitra, AOR Mr. Gurmeet Singh Makker, AOR Mr. Raj Bahadur Yadav, AOR Mr. Satyajeet Kumar, AOR Mr. Goutam Prasad, Adv. Ms. Priyanka, Adv. Mr. Colin Gonsalves, Sr. Adv. Ms. Tanya Agarwal, AOR Mr. Krishna Kumar Keshav, Adv.

JUDGMENT :

S.V.N. BHATTI, J.

1. Leave granted.

2. The Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (“SSA”) is a flagship programmatic intervention by the Government of India, operationalised in partnership with State Governments, to achieve the universalisation of Elementary Education in India. Its jurisprudential foundation is anchored in the Directive Principles of State Policy under Article 45 of the Constitution of India and, subsequently, the Fundamental Right guaranteed under Article 21A¹ [Inserted via the 86th Constitutional Amendment Act, 2002] which mandates the State to provide free and compulsory education to all children in the age group of six to fourteen years. The SSA is the primary vehicle for implementing the provisions of the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009 (“RTE Act”). In the State of Jharkhand, the overarching responsibility for implementing the SSA is with the Jharkhand Education Project Council, an autonomous State Implementation Society. The project was a much-needed initiative, and to fulfil its laudable aims, the State may have been compelled to adopt innovative approaches to address the human resources gap in employing teachers. To shorten the narrative

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2026 Supreme(SC) 502

PANKAJ MITHAL, S. V. N. BHATTISunil Kumar Yadav – AppellantVersusState of Jharkhand – Respondent

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PANKAJ MITHAL, S. V. N. BHATTI
Sunil Kumar Yadav – Appellant
Versus
State of Jharkhand – Respondent