Partly allowed
Heena Dikshit v. The State of Bihar
Patna HCL.P.A/804/2022
Case brief
AI extract
What is this about?
Court upheld the statutory requirement that elementary school teachers possess minimum training qualifications under Section 23 of the RTE Act. It interpreted the second proviso's four-year period as running from the commencement of the 2017 Amendment Act to 08.08.2021, not from the retrospective effective date. Teachers qualifying within the period were deemed continued; others stand terminated.
What did the court decide?
Teachers qualifying on or before 08.08.2021 deemed continued from initial appointment; those not qualifying terminated; individual representations to be considered by State Government.