- (1.) This order will dispose of six appeals bearing LPA Nos. 1391, 1580, 1797, 1805, 1806, 1851 of 2015. However, the facts have been extracted from LPA No. 1391 of 2015.
(2.) This case pertains to Guest Teachers belonging to the category of Trained Graduate Teachers.
(3.) The role of the teachers was highlighted by Hon'ble the Supreme Court in Andhra Kesari Educational Society vs Director of School Education, 1989 1 SCC 392 . Relevant para thereof is extracted below:- "20.... Though teaching is the last choice in the job market, the role of teachers is central to all processes of formal education. The teacher alone could bring out the skills and intellectual capabilities of students. He is the 'engine' of the educational system. He is a principal instrument in awakening the child to cultural values. He needs to be endowed and energised with needed potential to deliver enlightened service expected of him. His quality should be such as would inspire and motivate into action the benefiter. He must keep himself abreast of everchanging conditions. He is not to perform in a wooden and unimaginative way. He must eliminate fissiparous tendencies and attitudes and infuse nobler and national ideas in younger minds. His involvement in national integration is more important, indeed indispensable.";