Hyderabad: Hyderabad High Court asked Telangana Government and its State Public Service Commission (TSPSC) to spell out the stand on a PIL seeking to conduct in English the recruitment test for physical education teacher (PET) posts.
A division bench comprising Acting Chief Justice Ramesh Ranganathan and Justice K. Vijaya Lakshmi issued the notices while admitting a suo motto taken-up PIL based on a letter to the Chief Justice from aspirants for PET posts.
B Srinivas and 15 others urged the Chief Justice to intervene as TSPSC was going ahead with the schedule to conduct the examination only in vernacular languages for the respective mediums of schools opted by the candidates, without considering their representation to conduct the test in English.
They submitted that they had studied the subjects for courses like UGDPED and BPED in English only and the terms used in physical education subjects in vernacular languages was very complex.
They said it was highly impossible for the TSPSC to frame question papers totally in vernacular languages without using English words. The ACJ referred the letter to the PIL committee.
Justice Challa Kodandaram, a member of the PIL committee, endorsed that the problem projected in the letter as an important one involving lives and career of a large number of people. As pointed out in the letter proper books and study materials were not available in the vernacular language. Transition had to be gradual.
The judge also endorsed that there was no rationale in conducting exams of this nature only in vernacular language when English medium schools were being permitted and letter might be treated as PIL. Other committee members, Justices P.V. Sanjay Kumar, Suresh Kumar Kait and S.V. Bhatt, endorsed the view.
The bench, while issuing notices to the respondents, adjourned the hearing.
