The Madras High Court has refused to direct the Tamil Nadu government to regularise the services of a group of part-time lecturers employed in various government law colleges in the state.
Justice K Chandru, holding that no case had been made out to entertain the writ pleas, said the lecturers were appointed neither by the Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission nor by the Teachers Recruitment Board. Dismissing the petitions filed by a total of eight law college lecturers, the judge said their recruitment was not in terms of the recruitment rules of the Tamil Nadu Legal Education Services either.
Citing a government order dated May 8, 1996 regularising the services of contract lecturers, the present batch of law college lecturers demanded a similar largesse from the government.
Dismissing their petitions, justice Chandru said they were all appointed on adhoc basis, that too on yearly contract. In the appointment order, it had been indicated that the job was liable to be terminated at the end of the academic year or if permanent lecturers duly recruited by selection authority take charge. Pointing out that these lecturers were continuing in the service only due to an interim order stay obtained in courts, the judge said it could not be said that they were recruited as per proper recruitment rules and by competent selection authority.
The authorities were also right in contending that part time lecturers' posts was no longer required in view of the decision of the University Grants Commission to have only regular day-time course. Further, in view of the abolition of the evening classes, there was also surplus of part-time lecturers engaged by the director of legal studies in various government law colleges. The petitioners having been appointed as part time lecturers cannot compare themselves with full time teachers.
Justice K Chandru, holding that no case had been made out to entertain the writ pleas, said the lecturers were appointed neither by the Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission nor by the Teachers Recruitment Board. Dismissing the petitions filed by a total of eight law college lecturers, the judge said their recruitment was not in terms of the recruitment rules of the Tamil Nadu Legal Education Services either.
Citing a government order dated May 8, 1996 regularising the services of contract lecturers, the present batch of law college lecturers demanded a similar largesse from the government.
Dismissing their petitions, justice Chandru said they were all appointed on adhoc basis, that too on yearly contract. In the appointment order, it had been indicated that the job was liable to be terminated at the end of the academic year or if permanent lecturers duly recruited by selection authority take charge. Pointing out that these lecturers were continuing in the service only due to an interim order stay obtained in courts, the judge said it could not be said that they were recruited as per proper recruitment rules and by competent selection authority.
The authorities were also right in contending that part time lecturers' posts was no longer required in view of the decision of the University Grants Commission to have only regular day-time course. Further, in view of the abolition of the evening classes, there was also surplus of part-time lecturers engaged by the director of legal studies in various government law colleges. The petitioners having been appointed as part time lecturers cannot compare themselves with full time teachers.
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