Writ petition against TRT dismissed

Hyderabad: The High Court at Hyderabad has dismissed the writ petition filed, challenging the Teacher Recruitment Test (TRT) notification issued by Telangana State government to fill 8,792 teacher posts. The court made it clear that it cannot agree with the contention of the petitioner that the 10 previous districts recognised by Presidential Order must alone be taken as a unit for allocation of the posts rather than the present 31 districts as was mentioned in the notification.

It asked the petitioner to show which provision would bar taking new districts as a unit for this recruitment. Justice A Ramalingeshwar Rao on Thursday dismissed the petition filed by K Balakrishna, K Bhanu and Ram Mohan Reddy challenging the Notification issued by School Education Department this October 10th.

Senior counsel appearing for the petitioners argued that this Notification is contrary to Presidential Order which recognises the previous 10 districts as units for recruitment. He brought to the notice of the judge that there are no posts available in some of the 31 districts and therefore the aspirants from those districts would lose out. In some other districts, there are very few posts, resulting in imbalance. He pleaded that the recruitment must be done as per previous districts as a unit.

Telangana Advocate General D Prakash Reddy informed the judge that this recruitment is being done for district grade teacher posts and that Presidential Order does not apply for recruitment undertaken for these posts. Taking into consideration this submission of the AG and given the fact that there is no bar for aspirants of any district to apply for these posts, the judge passed orders dismissing the writ petition.