Teachers above 50 years of age exempted from ‘excess teacher’ transfers: Karnataka HC
PTI, Jul 27, 2024, 2:23 PM IST
The Karnataka High Court has ruled that female teachers aged over 50 and male teachers above 55 are exempted in law from being considered as ‘excess teachers’ during the process of rationalisation and redeployment in other schools.
This decision enforces Section 10(1)(vi) of the Karnataka State Civil Services (Regulation of Transfer of Teachers) Act, 2020, which mandates that authorities must honour this provision. The court’s decision came while dismissing the appeals filed by the Department of School Education, which had challenged the Karnataka State Administrative Tribunal’s orders. These orders had quashed the transfer of two teachers, Umadevi Hundarkar and Prabhavati Ronad, from their high schools in Bagalkot district on the grounds of being ‘excess teachers’.
A division bench comprising Chief Justice N.V. Anjaria and Justice S.G. Pandit emphasised that such beneficial provisions must be implemented in favour of eligible teachers, regardless of whether they have specifically requested it. The bench highlighted that this statutory provision grants a right to the teachers to be protected under the Act.
The court also noted that the two teachers should not have been classified as excess and transferred, especially after they highlighted the relevant Act provisions. Upholding the tribunal’s decision, the court underscored that age-based exemptions are a long-established practice and that the authorities should have considered the teachers’ valid and timely representations.
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