Minority institutions should frame regulations: HC

Chennai, October 13: Madras High Court has said Tamil Nadu Government should initiate steps to ensure that minority institutions framed regulations for staff selection.

Allowing an appeal by B Devashanthini, a teacher in a minority institution, a Division Bench comprising Justices Elipe Dharma Rao and K K Sasidharan observed that in spite of a Supreme Court direction in the T M A Pai Foundation case, minority institutions had not framed the regulations.

The Judges said that the Apex court in the Pai Foundation case had clearly indicated that minority institutions should evolve necessary guidelines in the appointment of teachers and the headmaster.

The state should also take steps to make sure that the institutions regulated procedure for disciplinary action and other service matters related to staff, the Court said.

–Agencies