The Supreme Court Wednesday warned the state governments against engaging teachers as private secretaries to ministers and MLAs. The Supreme Court Wednesday warned the state governments against engaging teachers as private secretaries to ministers and MLAs. The Supreme Court Wednesday warned the state governments against engaging teachers as private secretaries to ministers and MLAs, asserting that letting this practice go on would mean permitting a “constitutional disaster”. It added that teachers serving as private secretaries of MLAs and MPs was a thing “unheard of” and this could very well be against than date if the Right to Education Act too. It also said that the teachers could be put on deputation duty but they cannot be deputed as private secretaries to MLAs and ministers as it was in violation of the Right to Education Act.

Source: Indian Express September 07, 2016 17:03 UTC