1996 (10) TMI 530

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.... 1. This writ petition has been filed for a mandamus directing Respondent No. 3 Basic Shiksha Adhikari, Bhadohi to permit Petitioners to appear in the interview scheduled to be held for selection for Assistant Teachers in pursuance of advertisement dated 18.11.95. 2. I have heard learned Counsel for Petitioner and Sri. K.S. Shukla for Respondent Basic Shiksha Parishad and find no merit in th....

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....a 2(f) thereof it is staled: "The courses in duration of B.T.C. and L.T./B. Ed. are entirely different and have been devised keeping in view the stages through which the pupils have to pass. In the case of B.T.C. the method of training course are devised so as to meet the requirement of teaching at formative stage of the pupil who enters the school without any educational background foundation. Th....

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....nnot be said that a person who has training to teach High School and Intermediate classes would ipso facto also be a good teacher for primary schools. Teaching small children requires knowledge of child psychology, which an L.T. or B. Ed. teacher may not possess. I cannot also accept the argument that Bachelor of Education and L.T. is higher qualification than B.T.C. In my opinion, it is neither h....

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....ant qualifications are given and Bachelor of Education and L.T. are not the qualifications prescribed for Junior Basic Schools. 6. It is then argued by learned Counsel in some of the connected writ petitions that in Uttarakhand area, teachers having Bachelor of Education and L.T. are being permitted to teach in Junior Basic Schools. In my opinion, this is a reasonable classification and hence A....