RAJASTHAN VIDYA PEETH Vs. STATE

JUDGEMENT

(1.) IN all these cases a common question has arisen in the context of recruitment Rules framed by the Governor of Rajasthan under proviso to Article 309 for recruitment to the posts under the Rajasthan Educational Subordinate Service Rules1971 (hereinafter called, `the Rules of 1971' ).

(2.) ONE of the posts encadred under the Rules of 1971 is the Senior Teacher. The requisite qualification prescribed is- "graduate or equivalent examination with atleast two subjects taught in the school with Degree or Diploma in Education or Montessory. "

(3.) THE respondent State and its authorities are denying the said Degree issued by the Rajasthan Vidya Peeth, the status as B. Ed. Degree and has taken the stand that it is only a course of B. Ed. Child Diploma plus a bridge course and those who have passed these two course are to be treated as equivalent to STC, and cannot be considered equivalent to a B. Ed. Degree. In other words, while the petitioners claim that university is awarding a B. Ed. Degree after conduct of a particular course devised by it, the case of the respondents is that it is not a case of awarding of B. Ed. Degree but it is a case of claiming equivalence with B. Ed. Degree. It is in the exercise of considering equivalence of the courses conducted by the Rajasthan Vidya Peeth with B. Ed. Degrees granted by other universities or for the purposes of the Rules of 1971; that the Govt. has taken decision as revealed in Annx. R/1 that the students who have obtained B. Ed. (Child Diploma) course and have thereafter passed bridge course shall be treated equivalent to STC and has further clarified that the B. Ed. course conducted by Rajasthan Vidya Peeth has not been recognised as equivalent to B. Ed. Course.