ASHWANI KUMAR TIWARI Vs. STATE OF U P

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THE appellants in all these five appeals seek admission to the Special B.T.C. Course-2007. THEy are all students, who have obtained their B.Ed. degrees by the Distant Education Mode, and it is contended by them that in view of a judgement rendered by a Division Bench of this Court, to which one of us (Justice H.L. Gokhale, C.J.) was a party, in Special Appeal No.1271 of 2007 and others, on 03.10.2007, they are also entitled to the admission to the Special B.T.C. Course-2007.

(2.) THOSE appeals arose from a judgment rendered by a learned Single Judge in a group of matters, bearing Writ Petition No. 33987 of 2007, Renu Sharma vs. State of U.P. and others along with other connected petitions on 24.8.2007. The controversy in those matters was with respect to the advertisement given by the State Government for the Special B.T.C. Course 2007. The Government Order dated 10.7.2007 issued prior thereto had provided in Clause-II thereof with respect to the qualification as follows:-

(3.) THAT apart, the Division Bench noted that this was a scheme to enhance the teaching facility for primary education under Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan. The Special B.T.C. Course was a crash course of six months to impart necessary education to the B.Ed. graduates so that they can qualify to teach the primary students (for which they are not otherwise qualified). Some 60,000 teachers were needed. Many others who had done training course even in Physical Education were also permitted to participate and, therefore, there was no justification to exclude the students who had done their B.Ed from these two Universities.