4 posts of Lab Assistants were to be consistently sanctioned for each of the affiliated colleges, which were having Pre-Degree with science subjects and one post each was allotted to 4 different subjects of Physics, Chemistry, Zoology and Botany, thus totaling to 4 posts in a Pre-Degree course offered in a College with Science Batch. When the Higher Secondary system was introduced in the State, it appears that the overall understanding was that the abovesaid 4 posts would be continued in Higher Secondary Schools, including Aided Higher Secondary Schools, since the 4 subjects, viz., Physics, Chemistry, Zoology and Botany, were also part of the science subjects at the Plus Two level. We need not refer to the various initial Government Orders, which were issued at the earlier point of time, except to note that for the academic year 1991-92, the Government had issued G.O.(MS) No.18/91/G.Edn. dated 01.02.1991, whereby Higher Secondary Course (Plus Two) was introduced in few Government and Private Aided Schools during 1991-92, broadly at the rate of one Higher Secondary School in each of the Legislative Assembly Constituencies, where there are no Higher Secondary Schools, and that in the said order 4 Laboratory Assistants (one in each Laboratory in the subjects of Physics, Chemistry, Zoology and Botany), were allowed and the scale of
