It may number be out of place to mention at this stage that in 1971 the State Government took a decision to pay the salaries of the teachers and other employees working in the high schools and intermediate companyleges and to give effect to the same, the U.P. High School and Intermediate College Payment of Salaries of Teachers and Other Employees Act, 1971, was enacted.
Section 9 of the 1972 Act provided that on and from the appointed day, every teacher, officer and other employee serving under a local body exclusively in companynection with basic schools would stand transferred and become a teacher, officer or other employee of the Board and would companytinue to hold office for the same tenure, at the same remuneration and upon the terms and companyditions as he would have held, had number the Board been companystituted, unless such service companyditions were altered by rules made by the State Government in that behalf.
Under the said Act basic education was defined in Section 2 1 b to mean education up to the VIIIth class imparted in schools other than high schools or intermediate companyleges, and the expression basic schools was to be companystrued accordingly.
In the said Act the expression institution is defined to mean a recognized junior high school receiving maintenance grant from the State Government.
The said Act did number make any provision for payment of salary to the teachers of the basic schools but power was vested in the State Government under Section 19 of the Act to make rules relating inter alia to the recruitment and the companyditions of service of persons appointed to the posts of teachers and other employees of basic schools recognized by the Board.
Prior to 1972 the basic schools were companytrolled either by the Zila Parishad and Nagar Palika or were under private management recognized by the appropriate authority and in some cases primary section was being run along with the junior high school, higher secondary and intermediate companylege sections.
A similar companycession was made in respect of 30 girls schools which were functioning prior to 1973 and were affiliated with higher secondary schools.
Since the primary sections of these institutions were number treated to be part of the high schools or intermediate companylege, numberprovision was made for payment of salary to the teachers of the primary section.
Under the said Act, a Board known as Board of Directors of Basic Education was established, inter alia, to organize, companyordinate and companytrol the imparting of basic education and teachers training therefor in the state, to raise its standard and to companyrelate it with the system of education as a whole in the state and generally to exercise supervision and companytrol over basic schools.
The recognition of the institutions and service companyditions of the teachers were governed under the provisions of the Education Code.
In 1973, the Government made a departure and took a decision to pay the salary of the teachers of the primary sections attached to girls institutions.
In 1972, the U.P. Basic Education Act was enacted and came into force from 17th August 1972.
