No Teachers' Aptitude Test for minority schools: HC

Gujarat high court on Friday ruled that the compulsory Teachers' Aptitude Test (TAT) for appointment of headmasters and teaching staff cannot be made applicable to the minority education institutes in the state.

The state government recently introduced additional qualification for appointment of headmasters in the grant-in-aid educational institutes and made it compulsory for candidates for the post of headmasters to clear TAT.Nearly 15 trusts running Hindi-medium schools approached the high court seeking exemption from this rule. Earlier, they were exempted from this procedure but the state government, through two resolutions passed on August 5 and 17, withdrew the exemption granted earlier to minority institutes in deciding qualification for appointments of teaching or non-teaching staff. The petitioners had questioned the two resolutions.

Senior counsel Girish Patel and advocate Mamta Vyas, who represented the institutes, contended that the state government cannot change rules by merely passing resolutions and the recent provisions are in violation of the parent act. Hence, the amendments should go.

The high court accepted the arguments that the change in rules cannot affect the schools established and administered by the minority institutions, either linguistic or religious.

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