MAHARAJ SINHA,J - (1.) THE writ petitioner herein is essentially seeking regularisation or approval of his appointment as an assistant teacher in Gopabandhu Shramajibi Vidyalaya, 52/E, Beninandan Street, Calcutta � 700 025. Since the other prayers in the writ petition are merely incidental, those need not be specifically mentioned here.
(2.) GOPABANDHU Shramajibi Vidyalaya is a primary school consisting of four classes (Class I to IV) and was established way back in the year 1928. The school was first recognised by the Government of West Bengal in the year 1945 with one head teacher as an aided school. As the number of students of the said school rose it was not possible to manage the school with one head teacher and the writ petitioner who was then a 'Class � IV' employee of the school applied for the post of a teacher and was appointed as an assistant teacher by the then administrator of the school with effect from 1 September 1979. As an assistant teacher he was to receive Rs.100/- per month and his appointment was subject to approval by the District Inspector of Schools (Primary Eduction) Calcutta. Since there was no Oriya knowing candidate in the school and since the petitioner knew Oriya language, the District Inspector of Schools (P.E.), Calcutta thought it fit to call the petitioner for an interview for preparing a panel of assistant teachers in Oriya and Urdu and the writ petitioner appeared for such interview.
(3.) ON 26 March 1986, the head teacher of the school wrote a letter to the District Inspector of Schools (P.E.), Calcutta, requesting him to consider the case of the writ petitioner sympathetically and absorb him as a regular staff. On 21 March 1989, the head teacher wrote to the Commissioner for linguistic minority in India (Eastern Region) that although the total number of students of the school rose to 152, there were only 2 (two) approved teachers and that was insufficient to manage the classes.;