Jadumani Panigrahi v. State Of Odisha

IN THE HIGH COURT OF ORISSA AT CUTTACK

WPC (OAC) No. 2331 of 2012 Jadumani Panigrahi .....

Petitioner Mr. P.K. Rath, Advocate Vs.

State of Odisha and others .....

Opposite parties Standing Counsel

CORAM:

DR. JUSTICE B.R. SARANGI

ORDER

24.02.2022 Order No.

This matter is taken up by hybrid mode.

2.

Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and Mr. B. Prusty, learned Standing Counsel for School and Mass Education Department.

3.

The petitioner has filed this writ petition seeking to quash the order dated 11.04.2012 passed by the Director, Secondary Education, Odisha vide Annexure-5 in pursuance of the order dated 20.01.2011 passed by the tribunal in WPC (OAC) No. 32 of 2011 for regularization of service. 4.

As it appears, the petitioner was engaged as per subclause-(j) of Rule-12 of Orissa School Education (Community Participation) Rules, 2000, which reads as under:

"Utilize the services of local persons preferably retired teachers, retired employees/persons interested in school matters making up all the deficiency of teachers from the community on voluntary basis or payment of fixed honorarium meeting the cost from the school education fund without creating any liability for the State Government/Pachayats."

5.

In the above view of the matter, the petitioner is not entitled to get the benefit of regularization. Accordingly, the writ petition merits no consideration and the same is hereby dismissed.

Ashok (DR. B.R. SARANGI) JUDGE