High Court Of Rajasthan
Judgename : Mohammad Rafiq
Shashi Mehta - Appellant
Versus
State of Rajasthan - Respondent
S.B. Civil Writ Petition No. 4451 of 2002
Decided On : 07/07/2006
Deputation - Teacher's Posting - The court considered the concept of deputation and emphasized that it requires the consent of the lending department, borrowing department, and the employee concerned. The petitioner, being substantively appointed as a Teacher Grade-II, could not be posted on deputation outside the department without her consent, which was done in this case. The court also highlighted that the order for deputation cannot be enforced against the petitioner after a significant period of time.
Fact of the Case:
The petitioner challenged the order for her posting on deputation at a Residential School, stating that she never requested for such posting and that her consent was not obtained. The respondent argued that the petitioner could be posted in any school in the district due to administrative exigency.
Finding of the Court:
The court found that the petitioner, being substantively appointed as a Teacher Grade-II, could not be posted on deputation outside the department without her consent. The court also noted that the order for deputation cannot be enforced against the petitioner after a significant period of time.
Issues: The issues involved the petitioner's posting on deputation without her consent and the enforcement of the deputation order after a considerable period of time.
Ratio Decidendi: The court emphasized that deputation requires the consent of the lending department, borrowing department, and the employee concerned. It also highlighted that the order for deputation cannot be enforced against the petitioner after a significant period of time.
Final Decision: The court allowed the writ petition and quashed the order for the petitioner's posting on deputation.
Mohammad Rafiq, J.-In the present proceedings, the petitioner has challenged the order dated 010.2002 (Annexure 4) whereby she has been posted on deputation at Dungarpur Balak Vidhyalya, Kheda (Aaspur), which is a Residential School run by Social welfare Department of the Government of Rajasthan. The petitioner submitted a representation before the Director, Secondary Education, Government of Rajasthan, Bikaner stating therein that she never requested for her posting on deputation at the Residential School. She was recently posted at Government Secondary School, Dewalpal whereas her husband is working at Dungarpur. She also stated that one Shri Hirendra Singh Chauhan, Senior Teacher (Science), who had submitted application for his appointment on deputation basis at the Residential School, Khera and, therefore, her posting on deputation should be cancelled qua him.
2. Learned Counsel for the petitioner Shri Ravindra Paliwal has argued that even though the word deputation has not been defined under the Rajasthan Service Rules, 1951, (hereinafter referred as the Rules of 1951), however, the aforesaid rules has defined the term Foreign Service" under Rule 7(10) of the Rules of 1951, which is reproduced hereinbelow:-
"7(10) "Foreign Service" means a service in which a Government Servant receives his substantive pay with the sanction of Government from a source other than from the consolidated fund." The learned Counsel for the petitioner has also invited my attention towards the Rules 141 and 142
pertaining to foreign service contained in Part V of Chapter XIII of the Rules of 1951, which are also
reproduced hereinbelow:-"141. Employees consent necessary for transfer to Foreign Service;- No Government Servant should be transferred to Foreign Service against his will provided that this Rule shall not apply to the transfer of a Government Servant to the service of body incorporated or not, which is wholly or substantially owned or controlled by the Government or to transfer of Government Servant to service paid from a Panchayat Samiti/Zila Parishads fund constituted under the Rajasthan Panchayat Samiti and Zila Parishads Act, 1959 (Act No. 37 of 1959). 142. When transfer to Foreign Service admissible;- a transfer to foreign service is not admissible unless:-
(a) the duties to be performed after the transfer, are such, as should, for public reasons, are such, as should, for public reasons, be rendered by a Government Servant, and
(b) theGovernment Servant transferred holds, at the time of transfer, a post paid from a consolidated fund or holds a lien of such a post, had his lien not been suspended."
On the basis of the aforesaid rules, it is argued that since the petitioner is a member of Rajasthan Educational Subordinate Service created under the Rules of 1951, the petitioner should be posted only within the department. He also argued that the posting on deputation would essentially require consent of the Government servant concerned according to the rules of 141 of the Rules of 1951. In the present case, however, no such consent was ever given by the petitioner.
3. It was, therefore, prayed that the order dated 010.2002 (Annexure.4) passed by the Respondent No. 2 may be quashed and set aside qua the petitioner and the respondents may be directed to continue the petitioner as Teacher Grade-II in the subject of Biology (Science) in Senior Secondary School, Dewalpal District Dungarpur.
4. On the other hand, learned Dy. Government Advocate Shri Rameshwar Dave has argued that as per the administrative exigency, the petitioner can be posted in any school in the District. It was also submitted that it is not correct to state that she could be posted only in Secondary School or Hr. Secondary School. Since the petitioner was an experienced teacher, the respondents have sent her alongwith 34 other teachers on deputation to various Residential Schools for teaching the students of SC/ST category. Learned Counsel for the respondent also s
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