Approximately 700 Tripuran undergraduate teachers have filed cases with the Supreme Court contesting the State’s 2017 and 2020 termination decisions.
The Tripura teachers filed a petition with the top court, claiming that their orders to terminate were “unlawful and unconstitutional”.
According to the petition, in 2014 the Tripura High Court’s division bench ruled that a specific 2003 State government Employment Policy was “bad in law” and revoked the appointment of over 10,000 teachers who were allegedly hired under it. As a result, the petitioners were also fired.
The teachers have expressed doubts about the policy’s application to their employment and have argued that they were hired strictly in accordance with the current recruitment guidelines, which puts them outside the purview of the 2014 High Court ruling.
The petitioners claimed that the verdict was delivered behind their backs and that they were never informed of the proceedings before the High Court.
In the petition, they claimed that the Tripura government was running a huge scam.
According to the plea, all of these fired teachers’ employment and salary codes are still in effect, meaning that their monthly pay is being deducted from the state exchequer and misused by corrupt authorities and officials.
The petitioners have additionally revealed that the fraud allegation is being looked at by Principal Accountant General (Addl.), Tripura.
The petitioners have also drawn attention to the State’s severely inadequate teacher supply, which is placing an unfair burden on innocent pupils in the educational system.
Advocates Amrit Lal Saha, TK Nayak, and Aaditya Mishra drew out the plea.