<p>Thiruvananthapuram: The <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/india/kerala/kl-court-sabarimala-gold-tantri-3902825">Kerala </a>government on Wednesday accepted a couple of long pending demands of aided school managements and teachers, by-passing legal hurdles.</p><p>The surprise moves, which could benefit scores of aided schools, mostly run by managements of minority communities, as well around 20,000 teachers, are widely interpreted as pre-poll sops by the left-front.</p><p>Government approval for appointment of teachers at aided schools were stalled since 2021 following court order as the job reservation for differently-abled persons was not being fulfilled by the managements citing inadequate number of candidates. Hence the teachers appointed afterwards were working on a daily wage basis. </p><p>The Nair Service Society (NSS), which runs many aided schools, earlier secured an exemption from the Supreme Court. Since then the other managements were also demanding the government to make the SC order applicable for them also. But the government was so far maintaining that specific directive from the SC was required.</p><p>However, on Wednesday the government decided to make the SC order in favour of NSS run schools applicable to other aided schools also and thereby regularise the teachers appointed by those managements.</p><p>The government also decided to give exemption in the recently imposed norm, based on an SC order, that teachers should clear eligibility tests as per the National Educational Policy.</p><p>Both the decisions would be subject to the verdict of the petitions pending before the SC. Since the salary to aided school teachers are paid by the government, the decision will cause additional financial obligation to the cash-strapped exchequer.</p><p>While general education minister V Sivankutty said that around 20,000 teachers would be benefitted from the decision, various management forums, including the Kerala Catholic Bishops' Council, that welcomed the move, questioned the delay in taking the decision.</p>.CPI(M) dissidents at Congress events fuel political buzz in Kerala
<p>Thiruvananthapuram: The <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/india/kerala/kl-court-sabarimala-gold-tantri-3902825">Kerala </a>government on Wednesday accepted a couple of long pending demands of aided school managements and teachers, by-passing legal hurdles.</p><p>The surprise moves, which could benefit scores of aided schools, mostly run by managements of minority communities, as well around 20,000 teachers, are widely interpreted as pre-poll sops by the left-front.</p><p>Government approval for appointment of teachers at aided schools were stalled since 2021 following court order as the job reservation for differently-abled persons was not being fulfilled by the managements citing inadequate number of candidates. Hence the teachers appointed afterwards were working on a daily wage basis. </p><p>The Nair Service Society (NSS), which runs many aided schools, earlier secured an exemption from the Supreme Court. Since then the other managements were also demanding the government to make the SC order applicable for them also. But the government was so far maintaining that specific directive from the SC was required.</p><p>However, on Wednesday the government decided to make the SC order in favour of NSS run schools applicable to other aided schools also and thereby regularise the teachers appointed by those managements.</p><p>The government also decided to give exemption in the recently imposed norm, based on an SC order, that teachers should clear eligibility tests as per the National Educational Policy.</p><p>Both the decisions would be subject to the verdict of the petitions pending before the SC. Since the salary to aided school teachers are paid by the government, the decision will cause additional financial obligation to the cash-strapped exchequer.</p><p>While general education minister V Sivankutty said that around 20,000 teachers would be benefitted from the decision, various management forums, including the Kerala Catholic Bishops' Council, that welcomed the move, questioned the delay in taking the decision.</p>.CPI(M) dissidents at Congress events fuel political buzz in Kerala