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In a major verdict, the Kerala High Court on Friday directed the CBSE/ICSE Boards to immediately enforce a condition that schools seeking affiliations should pay a minimum monthly salary of Rs 10,000 to primary and middle school teachers, Rs 15,000 for secondary school teachers and Rs 20,000 to senior secondary teachers with an additional amount to headmasters/principals of all unaided schools in the state.
The court also directed to pay a minimum salary of Rs 6,000 and Rs 4,500 to clerical staff and peons and class IV staff as an interim measure till the Central government reconsidered the amendments to the affiliation rules regarding the payment of salaries to unaided CBSE /ICSE schools under the Right to Education Act.
The court also declared invalid and quashed the government norms for granting no objection certificates (NOC) to the CBSE and ICSE schools after declaring them invalid. A Division Bench comprising Justice C N Ramachandran and Justice C K Abdul Rahim passed the judgment while considering the petitions filed by the Kerala CBSE School Managements’ Association general secretary Indira Rajan and by various managements challenging the government norms.
The bench also asked to ensure that no manipulations take place with regard to payment of salary to teachers and staff. “No school should be allowed to start and operate bank account in any branch of any bank of its choice and no institution should be allowed to retain cheque books of any teacher. If any manipulation is found appropriate action, including withdrawal of NOC and affiliation as well as permissible criminal action should be taken against the managements and the principals involved,” the court said.
The court observed that unless fair wages are paid to both teaching staff and non-teaching staff, the unaided private schools will not get quality staff which will affect the coaching and in turn the education standards.
The court pointed out several letters addressed to the judges which narrate the clever ways of managements paying very low salaries to teachers and showing higher salary in records. The allegation is that the managements open separate bank accounts for teachers, which the principal operates by retaining cheque book of all teachers.
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