New Delhi, July 20: The Delhi High Court has issued contempt notices to city government's director of education, chairman, Delhi Subordinate Services Selection Board (DSSSB) and the MCD commissioner for failing to implement its order on appointment of teachers in government and mcd run schools in a time bound manner. The notices were issued by Justice Vikramjit Sen on a petition filed by social jurist through counsel Ashok Agarwal alleging the respondents failed to comply with the December 2001 order asking them to adhere to a time schedule for appointment of teachers.
The court has asked director, education, Rajender Kumar, DSSSB chairman T T Joseph and MCD commissioner Rakesh Mehta to file replies by August 18.
In its December 20, 2001 order, the court had framed a time schedule for filling vacancies for the year 2003 and onwards to ensure that no post remained vacant on April 1, 2003 in case of Delhi government schools and July 1, 2003 in case of MCD schools. Agarwal told the court that the deadlines fixed by the said order had already expired and a large number of vacancies is still there in government and MCD schools.
The PIL had alleged that there were around 3000 vacancies of teachers in the primary schools run by MCD and around 5000 such vacancies in Delhi government schools.
The petitioners contended that respondentss failure to provide adequate number of teachers adversely affected the studies of over 21 lakh students which amounted to violation of their fundamental right to education as guaranteed by the Constitution. Bureau Report