Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Mar 7: In view of abandoning the 18-year old Rehber-e-Taleem (ReT) scheme, the High Court has directed the Government to provide the details of all cases relating to ReT issues pending before both wings of High Court in order to decide these cases keeping in view the decision of winding up the scheme by the Government.
The Division Bench in an appeal filed by one Rubaya Jan which is concerned with the ReT scheme, which was abandoned by the Government of J&K way back in 2018, said the abandonment of the Scheme has caused impact on the case which are pending before Jammu wing as well as Kashmir wing of High Court as the decision of the Government shall have the bearing on all cases relating to ReT scheme.
Court directed the Government Counsel N H Shah (Sr. AAG) to provide complete list of all such matters pending in the Jammu wing as well as in Kashmir wing of High Court within two weeks. “The Registrar Judicial of both wings of the court shall take steps for consolidation of these matters for hearing”, DB directed.
The then State Administrative Council headed by the Governor in the year 2018 had ordered winding up of ReT scheme, a teacher recruitment programme started by the Government of J&K way back in 2000.
It was School Education Department which had mooted a proposal for closing down the scheme under which more than 41000 teachers were recruited in past 18 years, with a view that the Government had no resources to engage new ReTs. The DB passed these directions in an appeal filed by an aggrieved candidate who as per her contentions was eligible for the post of ReT but did not find her name in the select panel.
It is pertinent to mention here that hundreds of cases related to ReT issue are pending adjudication before Kashmir wing of High Court as well as Jammu wing of High Court and the court in view of closure of the scheme has to decide the fate of these matters as such called for details of these cases in order to consolidate these cases to decide them in a single judgment.
Appellant Jan had approached the writ court to challenge the panel issued by the authorities in which she was excluded and during the pendency of the writ petition, the authorities issued the appointment order in favour of other candidate which the petitioner also challenged by withdrawing in earlier writ petition. The writ court while deciding the petition rejected the claim of the appellant Jan seeking direction that she be appointed on the post in question.
Aggrieved of the writ court judgment she preferred the appeal before the Division Bench and the Division Bench before settling the instant appeal find it proper to bring together all such cases which relates to the dispute of ReT appointments in order to settle the issue once and for all as there is no scheme in force as of now.
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