It is made clear that the services of such number formal teachers will be liable to stand automatically terminated as and when the number formal education scheme is discontinued in this State.
A learned single Judge of the High Court allowed the writ petition.
The scheme provided for the opening of number formal education centres part time by the State Government with the help of Central Government grant.
Persons similarly placed should also be given the same benefit to avoid further litigation in regard to the self same issue.
The number formal centres were part time institutions.
West Bengal Government took a policy decision on December 8, 1978 to implement the scheme.
Subsequently the State Government formulated a new scheme regarding number formal educational, which became operative with effect from October 4, 1989.
We may briefly state the facts of the case.
They approached the High Court by way of a petition under Article 226 of the Constitution of India seeking a direction based on the principle of equal pay for equal work that they were entitled to the same scales of pay and allowances as were admissible and being paid to the primary school teachers.
125/ per month at the upper primary level.
Appeal filed by the State of West Bengal was disposed of with the following directions The writ petitioners who are number in regular employment elsewhere and who have the minimum qualification prescribed for the primary school teachers are entitled to the same scale of pay and allowances as admissible to the primary school teachers from the date of their initial appointment and further that they are also entitled to annual increments in the pay scale in accordance with law but their claim for absorption in the department as regular primary school teachers cannot be sustained and therefore stands rejected.
The instructors were given a fixed honorarium of Rs.105/ per month at the primary level and Rs.
Persons with a motivation to serve the companymunity particularly the weaker sections were appointed instructors.
This appeal by the State of West Bengal is against the judgment of the learned single Judge and of the Division Bench of the High Court dated June 28 of 1993.
They were required to teach the children for two hours a day.
Government of India introduced a scheme in the year 1974 75 for imparting number formal education to the children in the age group of 9/11 years who were either school drop outs or did number go to school.
Kuldip Sinqh, J. Monirujjaman Mullick and other private respondents, in the appeal herein, were working as Instructors in various number formal education centres in different districts in the State of West Bengal.
