IN THE HIGH COURT OF ALLAHABAD
D. K. Seth, J.
PRAVEEN MISRA - Appellant
Versus
DISTRICT INSPECTOR OF SCHOOLS, ALLAHABAD - Respondents
C. M. W. P. 8203 Of 1994
Decided On : 09/02/1997
EDUCATION - APPOINTMENT OF TEACHERS - AD HOC APPOINTMENT - RIGHT TO APPOINT - ACCRUAL - SECTION 18 OF THE U. P. SECONDARY EDUCATION SERVICES COMMISSION AND SELECTION BOARDS ACT, 1982 - U. P. SECONDARY EDUCATION SERVICE COMMISSION (REMOVAL OF DIFFICULTIES) ORDER, 1981 - INTERPRETATION AND APPLICATION.
Fact of the Case:
The petitioner was appointed as an L. T. Grade teacher in a school on an ad hoc basis. The appointment was made pursuant to a resolution passed by the Committee of Management on 25.10.1992, and an appointment letter was issued on 26.10.1992. The petitioner joined the school on 1.11.1992. However, the District Inspector of Schools did not approve the ad hoc appointment, and the petitioner was not paid any salary.
Finding of the Court:
The court held that the right to appoint a teacher on an ad hoc basis accrued to the Committee of Management on the expiry of two months from the date of notification of the vacancy to the Commission. In the present case, the vacancy was notified on 27.6.1991, and the right to appoint accrued on 27.8.1991. Ordinance No. 21 of 1992, which substituted Section 18 of the U. P. Secondary Education Services Commission and Selection Boards Act, 1982, came into force on 14.7.1992. Therefore, the right to fill up the vacancy had accrued before Section 18 was substituted by the said Ordinance. The court further held that the U. P. Secondary Education Service Commission (Removal of Difficulties) Order, 1981, which provided the procedure for making ad hoc appointments, was not repealed by the introduction of Rules 9a and 9b in the U. P. Secondary Education Service Commission Rules, 1983. The court also held that Section 18 of the Act and the First Order, 1981, were not inconsistent with each other and had to be read together.
Issues: 1. Whether the right to appoint a teacher on an ad hoc basis accrued to the Committee of Management before or after the substitution of Section 18 of the U. P. Secondary Education Services Commission and Selection Boards Act, 1982, by Ordinance No. 21 of 1992? 2. Whether the U. P. Secondary Education Service Commission (Removal of Difficulties) Order, 1981, was repealed by the introduction of Rules 9a and 9b in the U. P. Secondary Education Service Commission Rules, 1983? 3. Whether Section 18 of the Act and the First Order, 1981, were inconsistent with each other?
Ratio Decidendi: 1. The right to appoint a teacher on an ad hoc basis accrues to the Committee of Management on the expiry of two months from the date of notification of the vacancy to the Commission. 2. The U. P. Secondary Education Service Commission (Removal of Difficulties) Order, 1981, was not repealed by the introduction of Rules 9a and 9b in the U. P. Secondary Education Service Commission Rules, 1983. 3. Section 18 of the Act and the First Order, 1981, are not inconsistent with each other and have to be read together.
Final Decision: The court allowed the writ petition in part and directed the District Inspector of Schools to decide the question of the petitioner's appointment in accordance with law on the basis of the relevant material placed before him.
( 1 ) IN the post of L. T. Grade teacher, a vacancy arose on 31. 3. 1991 in Keshav Shiksha Sadan uchchatar Madhyamik Vldyalaya, Saldabad, District Allahabad. The vacancy was notified to the service Commission by the Management on 27. 6. 1991. Pursuant to an advertisement, the committee of Management selected the petitioner against the said vacancy by resolution dated 25. 10. 1992. The petitioner was issued appointment letter dated 26. 10. 1992. Pursuant to which the petitioner Joined on 1. 11. 1992. The Management by letter dated 10. 11. 1992 informed the district inspector of Schools about the ad hoc appointment of the petitioner but the District inspector of Schools did not take any step to approve the ad hoc appointment of the petitioner due to which the petitioner is not being paid salary though he had been working in the school since 1. 11. 1992. Aggrieved, the petitioner has preferred this writ petition.
( 2 ) BY way of an application for amendment, the petitioner has sought to incorporate certain grounds by which he had attacked various provisions of the U. P. Intermediate Education Act. The said application for amendment was allowed and the grounds taken have been treated to be grounds of the writ petition by consent of the learned standing counsel inasmuch as those grounds are only legal submissions on the basis of the facts already on record.
( 3 ) IN the counter-affidavit, it has been pointed out that after the creation of new posts in L. T. Grade Science and Maths, a notification was given by the Committee of Management on 27. 6. 1991 to the Commission, that the Management was empowered to appoint a teacher after expiry of two months, namely, after 27. 8. 91. On the contrary it is alleged that the Management had appointed the petitioner on 1. 11. 1992 though in the meantime Ordinance No. 21 of 1992 had been promulgated seeking to substitute Section 18 of the U. P. Secondary Education Services commission and Selection Boards Act, 1982 (hereinafter referred to as the said act) with effect from 14. 7. 1992. It is also alleged that the selection has not been made in compliance of Section 18 as substituted by the said ordinance since been replaced by the Act No. 24 of 1992 and that no advertisement was issued, in two newspapers having circulation in the State of U. P. Therefore, no approval could be given to the appointment of the petitioner. Learned counsel for the petitioner elaborates his argument pointing out that certain issues relating to ad hoc appointment was not considered in the case of Radha Raizada and others v. Committee of Management and others, 1994 (3) UPLBEC 1551, by the Full Bench and that the removal of Difficulties Order stand superseded by reason of the introduction of Rules 9a and 9b w. e. f. 16. 7. 92 published on 4. 9. 92 by means of amendment in the U. P. Secondary Education services Commission Rules, 1983. He contends that the Removal of Difficulties Order cannot eclipse Section 18 of the said Act. If there is any contradiction between the Removal of difficulties Order and Section 18. Section 18 would prevail. The vacancy having accrued prior to Ordinance No. 21 of 1992, the right accrued to the Managing Committee to appoint is not affected by reason of subsequent legislation, namely, Ordinance No. 21 of 1992. He had raised many other interesting points with regard to his assertion that the field is not covered by the Full bench, therefore, a fresh look is to be given to the points raised by him. True that the points raised by him are very interesting, and the learned counsel for the petitioner had argued with great perseverance and clarity of thought but to my mind. It is not necessary to deal all the points raised in the present case on account of the facts and circumstances of the present case which does not permit such an exercise.
( 4 ) THE entire issue hinges on the question as to whether the appointment would be made under section 18 of the Act as it stood prior to Ordinan
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