J-K HC irked as teacher fails to write simple essay on cow

Srinagar In a rare instance the Jammu and Kashmir High Court made a teacher write a brief exam in an open court to check his abilities but the examinee failed miserably leading to a slew of directions to the state government for checking tuck shops in the education sector The direction came yesterday when Justice Muzaffar Hussain Attar was hearing a petition challenging appointment of Mohammad Imran Khan as RehbareTaleem education guide teacher in a school in south KashmirPicShadab Khan Picture used for representational purposesThe petitioner had alleged that Khans certificates issued by Board of Higher Secondary Education Delhi and Global Open University Nagaland were not recognised The marks certificate issued to the respondent by the Board of Higher Secondary Education Delhi showed 74 per cent 73 per cent and 66 per cent in Urdu English and Maths respectivelyThe court asked a senior counsel to give a simple line for translation from English into Urdu and viceversa but the teacher failed to do itThe teacher was then asked to write an essay on cow in Urdu but he failed He sought permission to write the essay outside the court room which was granted but he again failed Khan then claimed that he had better hold on Mathematics The court asked another counsel to frame standard IV problem for the teacher to solve And he failed again In this situation what would be the fate of the state has to be only visualised The school going children would pass out as block heads the court observedThe court directed the government to constitute a panel which would look into degrees issued by unrecognized study centersThe court also directed Commissioner Secretary Education to constitute a panel to ask the teachers who produce such degrees to sit in a screening test and ascertain if they are in a position to teach studentsThe ReT teachers who fail in such a screening test their certificates would require to be seized after affording opportunity of hearing to them The authorities shall consider termination of their services after following principles of natural justice as same will be in the larger interests of the student community and society the court saidTerming the study centers as tuck shops the court said The writ petition at hand throws up most startling and classical example of sale and purchase of academic degrees for which many tuck shops are operating in the state and responsible for relegating the student community to the dark cave of PlatoThe authorities responsible to ensure that the stream of academics and education is not polluted in the State of JampK however in view of the facts which have surfaced in this case have acted as soulless bodies with rayless eyes as they have criminally condoned and overlooked the Himalayan blunders committed in procuring the academic degrees the court observedPointing out there are allegations that without taking examinations degree certificates were being issued the court said The candidate if selected has to teach the students in a school and after completion of satisfactory performance as ReT he would be absorbed as General Line Teacher in the School Education DepartmentThe court directed the Director School Education Department Kashmir to refer the instant case to the concerned police for registration of case and initiate action against the owner of the Study Centre and the candidate and others like him