SHILLONG: The state government is yet to act on the orders of the court to go for fresh recruitment of teachers following the education scam.
Earlier, the last November 2 order of the High Court of Meghalaya had stressed the need to have fresh recruitment process.
An official with the education department said on Monday that the matter was taken up with the government and a final decision is pending.
The earlier reports of the CBI and the High Level Scrutiny Committee (HLSC) had segregated the teachers who were appointed as “tainted and non-tainted”.
The government had in the past terminated the services of 246 “tainted” teachers.
However, the government will have to decide on cancellation of the entire selection process carried out in 2009-10 after the Supreme Court in its order on April 6 this year refused to give any relief to the government and the teachers.
The Apex Court, however, said if there are still some aggrieved teachers, they can approach the High Court.
Legal sources said the High Court is unlikely to change its decision since the division bench had taken exception to the manner in which the appointment of teachers was manipulated.
The November 2 order of the High Court said the entire selection process under the advertisement on December 10, 2008, as issued by the Deputy Inspector of Schools in pursuance of the notification on November 24, 2008, was vitiated in relation to Shillong Sadar, Jowai, Amlarem, Tura and Dadenggre centres.
It was later annulled subject to the proviso that only the candidates who have been treated as untainted/unblemished both in the reports of CBI and HLSC and are in service, may be allowed to continue as a stop-gap arrangement until fresh selection takes place, the court said.
The untainted/unblemished candidates of the five centres, whether in service or not, will be allowed to participate in the fresh selection process, if otherwise eligible in accordance with the present applicable rules, without applying afresh, the order had said.
According to the order, none of the untainted candidates will be treated as age-barred if he or she was within the age prescribed by the notification on November 24, 2008.
The court had also made it clear that “none of the candidates who have been found tainted, whether in the report of the CBI or that of the HLSC or both, and also none of the candidates who had been recommended by the public representatives shall be taken or retained in service even in stop-gap arrangement and the service of every such candidate, who is yet continuing, whether by way of regular appointment or in ad hoc arrangement, shall stand terminated with immediate effect”.
