Fwd: No election duty for teachers
dhanada mishra
via Karnataka Learning Partnership by nor...@blogger.com (Gautam) on 7/25/08
Via the Time of India:
BANGALORE: Teachers will no longer have to go for election duty. The
state government order issued on July 21 states that teachers should
not be deployed for election duty or any other non-academic
activities.
According to the order, deputing teachers for non-academic purposes
will disrupt the studies of children. Earlier too, the government had
mulled over banning teachers from election duty.
The Supreme Court had ruled that government schoolteachers cannot be
asked to skip classes and undertake non-academic activities like
election duty and census work. The SC order dated December 6, 2007,
stated that services of only the non-teaching school staff can be
utilised for such duties.
In the wake of this, the Election Commission of India had sent a copy
of the SC order to the Commissioner of Public Instruction and zilla
parishad CEOs. Despite this, teachers were used for non-academic
activity.
Karnataka State Primary School Teachers Association had submitted a
memorandum to the government requesting them not to appoint teachers
for non-academic activities
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