Contract teachers in Government Colleges have been used to the practice of relieving them at the end of academic session in March, every year, and then taken back at the start of next academic session, thereby depriving them of salary for approximately four months every year, notwithstanding that the Supreme Court of India had in its 1987 judgment in Rattan Lal’s case, condemned this practice and had directed the Haryana Government to pay salaries to the concerned petitioner-adhoc teachers for the period in between two academic sessions.
Contractual and part-time lecturers of some of the Government Colleges in Punjab filed civil writ petitions in Macrh this year against this illegal practice of relieving them, and Justice Permod Kohli granted ‘status quo” to them in about half a dozen such CWPs; Despite one such “status quo order” given by the HC in favour of Kannu Priya, a Lecturer in Computer Science in Govt. Ripudaman College, Nabha, was relieved by the Principal of that College on March 31st, 2011; Kannu Priya hereupon filed an application before the HC for seeking appropriate action against her Principal. HC issued a notice to the Principal on the application. Today, not only the Principal paid her cheque for salary for Month of April, 2011, but also assured the Court that Kannu Priya shall be allowed to mark her presence in the proper attendance register till next date, i.e., August 16th, 2011.