11-05-2025
HC quashes transfer order of non-govt aided college's staffer
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Cuttack: Staff of
non-govt aided colleges
cannot be transferred to another institution, the
Orissa high court
has held while quashing the transfer order of an employee issued by the director of higher education and endorsed by a single judge's ruling was given on May 7 based on an appeal filed by a junior clerk at
Dhamnagar College
in Bhadrak who was transferred to Naami College in the same district by an order issued by the director of higher education on administrative ground on March 10.
State govt argued that the transfer of an employee from one institute to another within the same district on the ground of administrative exigency does not violate any rules. But the division bench of Chief Justice Harish Tandon and Justice M S Raman ruled, "Since a conscious decision is taken by the higher education department by issuing a clarification through a circular, dated April 16, 2022, that the employees of non-govt colleges who receive grant-in-aid cannot be transferred from one institution to another, it does not invite any interpretative tool to be used to restrict its applicability to inter-revenue district and not intra-revenue district.
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""We find that the judgment on March 20, 2025, passed by the single judge cannot be upheld and therefore, the same is hereby set aside," the division bench said and quashed the March 10 order of the director of higher to case records, the petitioner had first challenged his transfer order in HC. But a single judge had dismissed his plea on March 20, stating that the moment such a transfer was necessitated by an administrative exigency, HC should be slow and circumspect in interfering with such an he returned to HC with an appeal, pointing out that the higher education department had issued a circular to principals of all non-govt aided colleges on April 16, 2022, stipulating that the employees of non-govt colleges who are receiving grant-in-aid are not transferable from one institution to another.
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