Madras HC categoric on NET/SLET for lecturer post

Updated on: Wednesday, December 08, 2010

The Madras High Court today dismissed writ petitions and appeals seeking to restrain UGC and Teachers Recruitment Board of Tamil Nadu from insisting on National Eligibility Test (NET) and State-Level Eligibility Test (SLET) qualification for candidates who have passed M.Phil prior to 1993 for being eligible for the posts of Assistant Professor in Tamil Nadu Educational Services.
A batch of petitioners had sought a direction to the authorities to entertain their applications without imposing the condition of requirement of NET/SLET qualification.

Delivering an order a divison bench comprising Chief Justice M Y Eqbal and Justice T S Sivagnanam said Union Human Resource Development ministry felt the need to introduce NET as compulsory for the purpose of appointment to teaching posts to upgrade standards.

For that purpose, expert committees were constituted consisting of eminent experts and academicians who recommended that NET/SLET should be retained as compulsory requirement for appointments irrespective of the candidates possessing M.Phil degree or Ph.D. Upholding the centre, the bench said, adding the impugned regulation and decision of the Central Government could not at any stretch of imagination be held to be illegal or arbitrary.

The decision was rationale and based on public interest and also national policy to upgrade the standards of education in the country, the court said.

Madras HC categoric on NET/SLET for lecturer post

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