580/75.
The Act provided for absorbing teachers serving in Middle Schools and Primary Schools managed by local authorities in Government service.
From the Orders dated 11 1 1978 of the Madhya Pradesh High Court in M.P. Nos.
Following this decision the present group of petitions were allowed by a Division Bench of the Madhya Pradesh High Court and an application for leave to appeal to this Court under Article 133 of the Constitution was rejected.
This supervisory role of the State hardly improved the situation with the result that tensions increased and the demand became louder that these institutions should be taken over by the Government for its direct management and the teachers should be accorded the status of Government servants.
Hence the State of Madhya Pradesh has filed this group of petitions for special leave to appeal.
CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION Special Leave Petition Civil Nos.
At the companymencement of the British Raj both in the Raj ruled area of India and the princely States institutions of higher education were set up and manned under Government aegis.
4069 of 1978.
AND SPECIAL LEAVE PETITION CIVIL NO.
4062 4066 of 1978.
As the demand for institutions of higher education increased with the proliferation of State activity and need of white companylar employees, these institutions speedily multiplied and they were generally set up and manned by educational societies or local authorities.
The Order of the Court was delivered by DESAI, J. Mr. Gambhir, learned companynsel for the petitioner informed us that a number of petitions are pending in the High Court of Madhya Pradesh in which the question raised in the present group of petitions is involved and as we are number inclined to grant leave, we would rather indicate our reasons by a speaking order.
From the Order dated 5 1 78 of the Madhya Pradesh High Court in M.P. No.
The turmoil since independence and especially in the last one and a half decade in the world of academicians led to the reversal of the policy of Government directly setting up educational institutions and in fact whatever they had set up, being slowly handed over to educational societies and or local authorities, and it has turned a full circle.
In Madhya Pradesh the State regulated the functioning and standards of academic instruction in Higher Secondary Schools under Madhya Pradesh Madhyamik Shiksha Adhiniyem, 1965.
390, 391, 393, 395 and 397/75.
K. Gambhir for the Petitioners in all the S. L. Ps.
The State Government responded to this demand by enacting the Madhya Pradesh Local Authorities School Teachers Absorption in Government Service Act, 1963 the Act for short .
