Chandigarh High Court decision on P.I.L. FOR T.E.T.- uploaded by VIJAY KUMAR HEER
IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH. Civil Writ Petition No. 7121 of 2010 DATE OF DECISION : MARCH 20, 2012 ARUN KUMAR PETITIONER VERSUS STATE OF HARYANA & ORS. RESPONDENTS CORAM : HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE RANJAN GOGOI, CHIEF JUSTICE HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE MAHESH GROVER PRESENT: Mr. GP Singh, Advocate, for the petitioner. Mr. Narender Hooda, Senior Additional Advocate General, Haryana. RANJAN GOGOI, C.J. (Oral) This Public Interest Litigation has been filed seeking directions from the Court for appointment of adequate teachers in the Government Primary Schools and Government Middle Schools named in the writ petition. According to the petitioner, there is a shortage of JBT Teachers in the said schools and particularly after coming into force of the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009 (hereinafter referred to as 'the Act'), the student-teacher ratio in the schools in question has drastically fallen in comparison t...