Keep pace with times, court tells education department
12 Aug 2013 11:00 PM GMT
The Delhi High Court has asked the Directorate of Education (DoE) to keep its policies in tune with the changing times. The court has asked DoE to formulate rules that are in sync with the changes being seen in the education sector to avoid an unnecessary flood of litigations.
A bench comprising of Justice Pradeep Nandrajog and Justice V Kameswar Rao made this observation after hearing petitions filed by five candidates who had cleared the Delhi Subordinate Staff Selection Board tests, but were denied jobs on the ground that they had not studied the elective subjects in all the years of their respective Graduation programmes.
The litigants had completed their Graduation from various universities, including Delhi University. These candidates had won the case from Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) and the Delhi government had challenged the order in the high court, which upheld CAT’s decision in four cases, while set aside the order in a case in which the candidate had applied for the post of trained graduate teacher (Sanskrit) but had not pursued the course in her Graduation programme.
DoE had contended that three aspirants had not studied the subject for which they had applied in all three years of the course, while one candidate studied the desired subject in her Post-Graduation and not Graduation.
As per the restructured BA (Programme) in Delhi University, the number of papers a candidate has to clear in two years is three as against the three papers in three years they had to clear earlier.
The bench observed, ‘The march of times has led University of Delhi to pioneer a Bachelorette degree i.e. a four year course to obtain the first degree after senior secondary,’ the court said, ‘Otherwise, as we can see the future cord of time: students from University of Delhi would be in perpetual litigation with the Directorate of Education as and when they seek employment as teachers in Delhi.’
‘Before concluding we pen a thought for the benefit of the Directorate of Education. With the march of times the imparting of education at the Graduate level is changing all over the world. It has been recognised that it would be useless to start teaching a particular subject without a basic study of some other subject.
‘The hitherto fore practice of teaching a subject each year with a paper of 100 marks in each year is giving way to the subject being taught in the second and the third year of Graduation but retaining the three papers each having 100 marks, observed the court.
A bench comprising of Justice Pradeep Nandrajog and Justice V Kameswar Rao made this observation after hearing petitions filed by five candidates who had cleared the Delhi Subordinate Staff Selection Board tests, but were denied jobs on the ground that they had not studied the elective subjects in all the years of their respective Graduation programmes.
The litigants had completed their Graduation from various universities, including Delhi University. These candidates had won the case from Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) and the Delhi government had challenged the order in the high court, which upheld CAT’s decision in four cases, while set aside the order in a case in which the candidate had applied for the post of trained graduate teacher (Sanskrit) but had not pursued the course in her Graduation programme.
DoE had contended that three aspirants had not studied the subject for which they had applied in all three years of the course, while one candidate studied the desired subject in her Post-Graduation and not Graduation.
As per the restructured BA (Programme) in Delhi University, the number of papers a candidate has to clear in two years is three as against the three papers in three years they had to clear earlier.
The bench observed, ‘The march of times has led University of Delhi to pioneer a Bachelorette degree i.e. a four year course to obtain the first degree after senior secondary,’ the court said, ‘Otherwise, as we can see the future cord of time: students from University of Delhi would be in perpetual litigation with the Directorate of Education as and when they seek employment as teachers in Delhi.’
‘Before concluding we pen a thought for the benefit of the Directorate of Education. With the march of times the imparting of education at the Graduate level is changing all over the world. It has been recognised that it would be useless to start teaching a particular subject without a basic study of some other subject.
‘The hitherto fore practice of teaching a subject each year with a paper of 100 marks in each year is giving way to the subject being taught in the second and the third year of Graduation but retaining the three papers each having 100 marks, observed the court.
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