salary to the accounts of the respective staff was introduced. Transfer is done through electronic mode and the system is paperless. I see IFHRMS as the next step. We may have to ultimately migrate to paperless system. Rules were issued way back in the year 1977. We are now in 2023. There has been a march of technology. Therefore, it is idle to contend that the scheme set out in 1977 should be followed. Even according to the management, they wants to retain some kind of hold over the staff. When the management gets grant from the Government and the staff are meant to be the recipients, it is just and proper that the middle man system is completely done away with. However, recognizing the role and status of the correspondent / secretary, in the impugned proceedings, they have been added as sanctioners. Their rights have not been breached or violated in any manner. There is no merit in the challenge made to the proceedings of the Joint Director of School Education (Secondary Education), Chennai. The learned counsel appearing for the petitioner states that in some institutions, there are no clerical staff. If that be so, a representation can very well be made to the District Educational Officer who can nominate and identify any Government paid servant as initiator.
