Without sanctioned post, no permanent job in aided school: HC

A person employed temporarily as a teacher in an aided school cannot get a permanent job there unless there is a sanctioned post, the Delhi High Court today said.
"Without there being a sanctioned post, a person cannot seek permanent appointment merely because such a person is employed as a teacher in an aided school," Justice Valmiki J Mehta held.
The ruling of the court came on a plea by a man who was seeking to be regularised as a trained graduate teacher (TGT) in an aided minority school here where he was appointed on a temporary basis in 1997.

The petitioner, in his plea filed in 2009, had claimed that since he was working for 11 years in St John Co-education Secondary School from 1997 till 2008, he should be regularised instead of the post being filled by direct recruitment for which advertisement was issued in 2008.
Dismissing the plea of the teacher, Kuldeep Singh, the court said, "If petitions, like the present one, are allowed with respect to regularisation of appointments in aided schools to which 95 per cent aid is given from the government, the same will result in totally illegal appointments with the consequence that the government will be asked to spend funds on illegal appointments of employees and teachers in the school."

The court noted that in the instant case, Singh was not appointed by a regular selection process by a selection committee and there was no sanctioned post or sanction of the Director of Education to fill a post in which he was temporarily employed and, therefore, he cannot claim regularisation.
"...He was appointed purely temporarily at a consolidated sum of Rs 1,000 and this amount was payable from the PTA fund," the court noted in its four-page verdict.