Decide on payment of salary in private engineering colleges:
Decide on payment of salary in private
engineering colleges: Supreme Court to AICTE
The Supreme Court today directed the technical education regulator
AICTE to decide the issue of regularising
and ensuring timely payment of salaries to staffers in all
private engineering colleges in the country. A bench of Chief Justice
J S Khehar and Justice D Y Chandrachud disposed of the petition that
had raised the issue of non-payment of salaries to the staff in these colleges
and asked the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE)
to treat it as a representation. "Having given our thoughtful consideration,
we are of the view that at the present juncture, it will suffice if a direction is
issued to the petitioner to submit a paper book of the writ petition to the secretary
of the AICTE. "The AICTE shall treat the same as a representation, and shall take
a conscious decision in respect of issues canvassed and take such remedial action,
as may be called for, in consonance with the law," the bench said. The petition, filed
by one K M Karthik, had sought a direction to the government to regularise and
ensure timely and complete payment of the staff salaries in all the private engineering
colleges in the country through the electronic clearing service of the nationalised banks.
It had also sought that inspection be carried out in such colleges "to verify the
recommended student-staff ratio, which shall be verified by the annual salary
paid statements to the staff and not only by identification parades". The petition
had said that no college should withhold or collect any of the original educational or
professional certificates of any staff member and that penalty be imposed on the
authorities for doing so. A welfare board or a commission for the welfare and grievance
redressal of the staff in these colleges should be established, it had said.
Dispose Of Engineering College's Property For Payment Of Salary To Employees: Punjab & Haryana High Court To State
ReplyDeleteThe Punjab and Haryana High Court has ordered disposal of the property of the Baba Hira Singh Bhattal Institute of Engineering and Technology, Lehragaga, Sangrur for payment of salary to its employees.
Justice Anil Kshetarpal said that, “this Court is left with no choice but to direct the Principal Secretary, Department of Technical Education and Industrial Training, Punjab, who is a member of the Board of Governors of the Institute to dispose of the property of the Institute in order to pay the amount to the petitioners within a period of one month from today, positively”.
The court was hearing a batch of writ petitions filed by employees of the institute seeking relief from the court as their salary had not been paid since December 2019. The court was informed that the Institute possess certain assets and maintains the bank accounts.
The petition said that the Institute is an autonomous body, with its Chairman and Members being nominees of the State Government.
On 11 April, the court was informed to the Court that the Institute was making efforts to dispose of its property, as per the directions of the State Government. The court had noted that the employees of the Institute have a preferential right to claim the recovery of their salary from the assets of the Institute and restrained it from disposing of its property without settling the claim of its employees.
“The interim order restraining the Institute from disposing of its property before settling the preferential claim of the petitioners, who are employees, shall continue to operate till the claim of the petitioners is settled,” the court said in the latest order.