The opposition parties have flayed the Samajwadi party government and the UP chief minister Akhilesh Yadav for sacking of the primary teacher Shiv Kumar Pathak. The teacher posted in lambhua town of Sultanpur, had filed public interest litigation in the Allahabad high court which asking the politicians and the government officers to send their kids to the state run primary schools. Shiv Kumar Pathak whose petition got this order has been sacked by the state government for being ‘absent ' from duty’.
The high court also directed the chief secretary of the state to file the status report on the implementation of the directive within next six months. The state government instead showing uncanny alacrity sacked the teacher.
Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav said on Thursday that the state government would soon constitute a committee which will look into the matter and the government on the basis of the report of the committee would decide its course of action as to how to comply with the directive of the high court. CM was in Muzaffarnagar today in connection with the funeral of the minister of state Chitranjan Swroop, who died in a hospital in Gurgaon on Wednesday after long illness.
RsRsThe Samajwadi party government has shown its intent about improving the condition of primary education in less than 48 hours of the Allahabad High court order’’, said the senior BSP leader and the leader of opposition in UP assembly Swami Prasad Maurya. He added RsRs chief minister Akhilesh Yadav should immediately revoke the order’’.
RsRsCan you expect anything better from the so called Samajwadis, they claim to the disciple of Ram Manohar lohia, but the successive governments of the Samajwadi party in last 25 years are known only for the anti people act. Even before the high court order could be served on the state government Chief minister Akhilesh Yadav decided to shoot the messenger’’, said Hridya Naryan Dikshit, leader of the BJP in state legislative council.
Pradeep Mathur, leader of the Congress in state Assembly flaying the state government said RsRs the order of sacking the teacher on flimsy grounds is highly arbitrary and betrays the dictatorial attitude of the chief minister’’. He said the order should be withdrawn and the services of the teacher be reinstated Rsand the government work on exploring the ways and means to implement the court’s order.
Pathak, a teacher in lambhua town of Sultanpur district of UP had raised the matter of the shortage of mathematics and science teachers in primary schools in the state. His claim was that around 58, 000 posts are lying vacant and government in not filling them despite the shortage causing problems to students and putting extra pressure on the existing staff.
Disposing his PIl the Allahabad High Court on Tuesday asked the state Chief Secretary to ensure that government servants, elected representatives and members of judiciary "and all other persons who get any benefit or salary from state exchequer or public fund" send their children to primary schools run by state Board for Secondary Education. The order came on the petition filed by Shiv Kumar Pathak and others who had challenged the process of selection of Associate Teachers for government-run primary and junior high schools in UP for the years 2013 and 2015.
The court pulled up the state's Basic Education department for "mindless, negligent, casual amendments" in rules pertaining to appointment of teachers, besides "defective Government Orders" issued from time to time which paved way for "multifarious litigations resulting in not only delay in appointment of primary teachers but also a very heavy pressure on this court".
"If a little care would have been there on the part of responsible officers in making legislations for making recruitment, huge litigations resulting in lakhs of vacancies in primary schools maintained by the UP Board would not have been caused", the court remarked.
Observing that government servants would ensure that state-run schools functioned well if they send their children to such educational institutions, the court asked the Chief Secretary to "take steps within six months so as to make the aforesaid directions applicable from the next academic session" and file a compliance report thereafter.