Why the delay in recruiting APPs: HC
The Hindu
Expressing dissatisfaction over the delay in filling up 174 posts of Assistant Public Prosecutor (APP), Telangana High Court on Monday instructed the government to complete the process by the end of t
Expressing dissatisfaction over the delay in filling up 174 posts of Assistant Public Prosecutor (APP), Telangana High Court on Monday instructed the government to complete the process by the end of this October. After hearing contentions of the government in a suo moto taken up PIL petition, a bench of Acting Chief Justice and Justice T. Vinod Kumar said no further extension of time would be permitted on the matter. After perusing the affidavit filed by Telangana State Level Police Recruitment Board, the bench observed the appointment process was going at slow pace. The bench declined to grant a time of 18 more weeks to complete the recruitment process as sought by the board. Absence of APPs was drastically affecting disposal of cases in different courts of the State, it said.Several principals of government and private schools in Delhi on Tuesday said the Directorate of Education (DoE) circular from a day earlier, directing schools to conduct classes in ‘hybrid’ mode, had caused confusion regarding day-to-day operations as they did not know how many students would return to school from Wednesday and how would teachers instruct in two modes — online and in person — at once. The DoE circular on Monday had also stated that the option to “exercise online mode of education, wherever available, shall vest with the students and their guardians”. Several schoolteachers also expressed confusion regarding the DoE order. A government schoolteacher said he was unsure of how to cope with the resumption of physical classes, given that the order directing government offices to ensure that 50% of the employees work from home is still in place. On Monday, the Commission for Air Quality Management in the National Capital Region and Adjoining Areas (CAQM) had, on the orders of the Supreme Court, directed schools in Delhi-NCR to shift classes to the hybrid mode, following which the DoE had issued the circular. The court had urged the Centre’s pollution watchdog to consider restarting physical classes due to many students missing out on the mid-day meals and lacking the necessary means to attend classes online. The CAQM had, on November 20, asked schools in Delhi-NCR to shift to the online mode of teaching.