Approval of appointment and timely payment of salary are essential rights of approved teachers under education statutes.

JUDGMENT Dated this the 3^rd day of February, 2026 The petitioners are approved Teachers working in the

5^th respondent’s School with effect from 15.07.2021. Exts.P2 to P4 are the approval orders which grant approval from the date of appointment. Salary is being paid from the date of approval and the arrears are kept pending. Ext.P5 is the bill.

2. By Ext.P6, it is informed that granting of approval from the date of appointment is accepted and since auditing is pending before the Deputy Director of Education, salary cannot be paid. The reasoning is palpably wrong. Seeking for a direction to release the arrears of salary, the petitioners have filed this writ petition.

3. When this writ petition came up for hearing, Government Pleader, on instructions, submitted that the respondents have dropped the objections. In that view of the matter, the 4^th respondent is compellable to release the arrears of salary due to the petitioners as evident from Ext.P5, expeditiously.

The writ petition is accordingly disposed of directing the 4^th respondent to release the amount admissible to the petitioners, as expeditiously as possible and at any rate, within a period of two months.

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