HYDERABAD: A division bench of the AP High Court comprising acting chief justice B Prakash Rao and justice V Suri Appa Rao on Tuesday suspended government orders and executive instructions under the Right to Education Act.
The bench made the interim order in two writ petitions filed by the Chaitanya Vidyalaya and the Chirec Public School questioning the vires of various provisions of the Right to Education Act. The Act and the government instructions require the schools to earmark 25 per cent of the seats for students from socially disadvantaged groups. The fees for such candidates would be paid by the government as fixed for government schools.
The present process also prohibits entrance test for admission and detention of candidates in any class up to the age of 14 on the ground of evaluation. The Act also requires the authorities to ensure free and compulsory education to all under the age of 14 years.
The schools are subject to disciplinary action under the ‘local authority’ which would imply that the local schools would be subject to disciplinary control by the GHMC, the petitioners contended.
The bench, by its interim order, stayed the instructions given by the state government in this regard.
TTD land allotment to staff stayed
The division bench stayed the allotment of 100 acres of land in Tirupati to the employees of the TTD. The interim order was made by the bench in the course of admitting a writ petition filed by P B Ramesh and two others questioning the allotment of 100 acres of land in Brahmanapattu village near Tirupati by the TTD to its employees as house sites.
Lakshminarayanaswami temple owned the land since the time of Sri Krishna Devaraya.
Though the TTD had taken over the management of the temple, it could not alienate the land in such a manner, the petitioners contended.
The order comes a day after the state High Court had also disapproved the decision of the TTD on the Ananta Swarnamayam project.