Minister for General Education V. Sivankutty has said that the government wants the rights of differently abled job seekers to be protected along with finding a solution to problems of other category school teachers.
He was making a statement under Rule 300 regarding appointment of differently abled persons in aided schools in the State in the Assembly on Thursday morning.
The Minister said the Supreme Court had in March last allowed the Nair Service Society (NSS) to regularise appointments made to general category posts in schools leaving out the posts reserved for the differently abled. Following this, various managements came to fore demanding that the relaxation allowed to the NSS be extended to them too.
The government had received legal opinion from the Advocate General and the Law department that the Supreme Court ruling was applicable only to the NSS. However, the government itself had filed an affidavit seeking that the relaxation be allowed to other aided school managements too after Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan took the initiative to call a meeting on the issue in the wake of protests by aided school managements.
As the formation of district-level committees to avoid delays in differently abled appointments too had been completed as per a Supreme Court judgment, the government had sought the court’s approval to regularise teachers’ appointments made to general category posts too.
