PURNENDU PAL Vs. SECRETARY, DEPARTMENT OF SCHOOL EDUCATION

JUDGEMENT

(1.) WHILE the mismatch between demand for job and its availability and the resultant negative balance are perennial social and economic scourge of our society ironically enough employment without work, in howsoever small a segment that may be, is also a problem calling for immediate attention. When by and large the job market is flooded with faces of despair and frustration, when a mere berth at any placement is all that a man can aspire to survive himself we are also occasionallyfaced with a situation when unproductive employment breeds no less a frustration, though in a reverse manner.

(2.) THE petitioner in WP 19287(W) of 2009 is the Headmaster of Metropolitan Institution (Burrabazar Branch) and the teachers of the said school are facing a similar problem. Once a very reputed institution founded in the nineteenth century by no less a person than Sri Iswar Chandra Vidyasagar, it failed to attract students as it gradually lost its glory with the passage of time. Change in the linguistic demography of the locality might be a causative factor. But we are not on the cause, but the effect of the outcome. The sharp decline of the students ' strength of the school is an admitted fact and from the table annexed to the petition showing a session -wise students strength of the school from 1999 -2000 to 2009 -10 confirms the same. When admission of a child to a school is a cause of worry to thousands of parents this particular school in the academic session 2009 -10 has only two students. This is a truth and indeed stranger than fiction. Consequently the school has no Managing Committee and the petitioner and other teachers have been rendered virtually inactive and without any work.

(3.) THIS was followed by a memorandum dated October 6, 2005 whereby the services of all the approved staff of the school were placed to other schools.