SC criticizes Gujarat Govt’s Vidya Sahayak scheme, calls them Shikha shatrus

21 May 2013 Evaluate

Supreme Court has criticized the Gujarat government of Chief Minister Narendra Modi over its Vidya Sahayak scheme, called them as Shikha shatrus (enemies of education). The court also asked the government to explain why vidya sahayaks were being paid just Rs 2,500.

Even the High Court had criticized the state government and directed them to pay teacher's pay scale to vidya sahayaks. In a stinging criticism a bench of justices BS Chauhan and Dipak Misra asked the Gujarat government to explain why full time teachers were not being recruited even after the Right to Education Act.

The bench noted that ad-hoc appointment of primary teachers are done in many states which provide them less than one-forth salary given to regular teachers.

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