Hyderabad: The Government Teachers Association has moved the Hyderabad High Court challenging the constitutional validity of Para 2A of the Presidential Order inserted on June 23, 2014, with effect from November 20, 1998.
The Centre inserted the provision by which non-gazetted teachers working in schools of mandal and zilla parishads are integrated with non gazetted teachers working in government schools and organised these separate categories into an integrated cadre.
The association represented by general secretary Mamidoju Veerachary and others moved the petition stating that Para 2A had far reaching consequences as it affected the service conditions of about 40,000 teachers. He said these teachers had been serving the state for the last more than three decades.
The petitioners submitted that teaching posts in local bodies, be it mandal or zilla parishads, were not under the control of state government but under the control of local bodies.
They contended that the President had no power or jurisdiction to organise teaching posts in local bodies into local cadres.
The association told the court that by integrating the teaching posts in local bodies with those in government, the powers of the local bodies was being lost and was interfering with their functioning, thereby defeating the proclaimed purpose of the 73rd Constitutional Amendment.
Docs’ Transfer to AP stayed
The Hyderabad High Court has stayed an order issued by the state government allotting 9 doctors of Unani medicine to Andhra Pradesh
Justice M.S. Ramachandra Rao was dealing with a petition by Dr Mohd Ateeq Ahmed Khan and eight others challenging their allotment to AP.
The judge said the post of medical officer in the Ayush department as per GO Ms. 68, dated March 14, 2005, was a state-wide post. It could not be treated as a zonal post; the government could not repatriate the petitioner to AP on the ground that they had earlier worked in AP.
While grating the stay, the judge directed the respondents to file the counter affidavits.
Meet of APNGOs society stalled
The High Court stayed the proceedings issued by the Ranga Reddy cooperative registrar for convening special general body meeting of the AP Non-Gazetted Officers (Gachibowli) Mutually Aided Cooperative Housing Society Ltd for bifurcation of assets and liabilities till further orders.
Justice B. Siva Sankar Rao was dealing with a petition moved society president Ashok Babu, wh had challenged the proceedings of the registrar issued on June 28, 2017, to convene the meeting on July 13.
Mr R.N. Hemendranath Reddy, counsel for the petitioner, said the registrar had issued proceedings earlier as well for conducting the meeting; when the society had questioned the proceedings before the High Court a single judge in November 2016 had stayed them by observing that the bifurcation of the society was not possible without comprehensive bifurcation of assets. Such exercise cannot be undertaken in view of the status quo orders passed by the High Court with regard 189 acres of land allotted to the society at Gopanapally in Ranga Reddy district, the single judge has ruled.
Judge recuses from JC case
Justice C. Praveen Kumar of the Hyderabad High Court on Wednesday recused from hearing a petition moved by TD MP J.C. Diwakar Reddy challenging the flying ban imposed on him.
Mr Diwakar Reddy moved the petitions seeking to declare the ban imposed on him by all major domestic airlines in the country as illegal. He said he had not been given right to reply.
When Mr Ranga Reddy, counsel for the petitioner, tried to make his submissions, the judge said he was recusing and directed the registry to place it before the Chief Justice to post the case before another judge.
