The Madras High Court has ordered notice on a writ petition by a post-graduate teachers organisation seeking to quash a Tamil Nadu G.O. of June 1, 2009 and appoint an expert committee to set right the pay anomalies.
In the petition, filed through counsel P.Wilson, the Tamil Nadu Higher Secondary Post-Graduate Teachers Association and three post-graduate teachers submitted that the impugned G.O. that accepted the Seventh Pay Commission recommendations fixed the scale of pay of post-graduate teachers much below the pay they were already drawing.
This amounted to discrimination.
There was no proportionate increase in the pay scale of post-graduate teachers vide the impugned G.O. which had been issued without due opportunity to the petitioners.
The only way to set right the anomalies was by constituting an independent expert committee under the Chairmanship of a retired High Court Judge.
The impugned G.O. should be quashed.
When the matter came up before Justice K.K.Sasidharan on Tuesday, Additional Government Pleader P.Sanjai Gandhi took notice.
