Supreme Court orders Jharkhand to reserve half of teacher posts for para-teachers
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Updated · Hindustan Times · May 7
Supreme Court orders Jharkhand to reserve half of teacher posts for para-teachers
11 articles · Updated · Hindustan Times · May 7
The court gave the state four weeks to issue the notification and 10 weeks to finish recruitment for assistant teacher and sahayak acharya posts.
A bench of Justices Pankaj Mithal and SVN Bhatti rejected demands to regularise para-teachers, saying that would create an unlawful recruitment route.
It also said equal pay is not automatic, as para-teachers lack the full responsibilities of regular staff, but affirmed their right to compete under existing Jharkhand recruitment rules.
Can a state plagued by administrative failure meet a 10-week court deadline to fix its long-standing teacher crisis?
Does solving an employment crisis by reserving posts risk worsening the already dire student learning outcomes in Jharkhand?
Is the court's order a real fix, or just a patch on Jharkhand's deeper crisis of governance and poverty?