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Computer science graduates move High Court

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Are against policy of not insisting on B.Ed. qualification to fill up computer teacher posts

CHENNAI: Computer science graduates with B.Ed. qualification have moved the Madras High Court to restrain the Government from holding a `special test' for computer instructors, working on contract basis, to fill up 1,880 newly created computer teacher posts.

When the matter came up before Justice P. Jyothimani, the Special Government Pleader (Education) said the Government would not finalise the candidates who wrote the proposed special test.

In its petition, the Tamil Nadu Computer Science B.Ed. Graduate Teachers Welfare Society said the computer instructors working in aided and Government schools since 1999 did not have the mandatory B.Ed. qualification to be considered for computer teacher posts.

The Government's move to hold the special test and to appoint the successful candidates as computer teachers was illegal and arbitrary, it said. Nalini Chidambaram, senior counsel for the petitioner, submitted that the policy of not insisting on B.Ed. qualification was unlawful and that B.Ed. qualification was mandatory because computer science was a general subject. Candidates should be sponsored by employment exchanges and the rule of reservation too should be followed by the Government, she said.

Besides seeking an interim injunction restraining the Government from holding the special test for computer instructors, the petitioner-association prayed for a direction to the authorities to terminate the services of computer instructors recruited on contract basis.

The authorities shall be directed to recruit B.T. and post-graduate assistants in computer science with B.Ed. qualification and follow the rule of reservation while filling up the 1,880 newly created posts with candidates sponsored by employment exchanges, it said.

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