The Delhi High Court has asked the city Government to consider relaxing age norms of candidates while recruiting special educators in over 1,700 MCD schools. A bench of Justices S Ravindra Bhat and Vipin Sanghi directed that the Chief Secretary hold within a week a meeting with officials of municipal corporations and arrive at a decision within three weeks, while observing that the issue of inadequate number of special educators in schools cannot be addressed till age relaxation is granted.
The court passed the order while disposing of the plea of eight special educators who were rejected for the post of Special Educator (Primary) in various MCD schools on account of being over-aged. The plea, filed through advocate Ashok Aggarwal, also challenged the May 28 order of the Central Administrative Tribunal which had directed Delhi Government to consider the representations of the petitioners and pass appropriate reasoned and speaking order thereon, within four weeks.
