1 - Bhuneshwar Prasad Sahu S/o Shri Rupnarayan Sahu Aged About 42 Years Working v. 1 - State Of Chhattisgarh Through The Secretary, Department Of School Education, New Mantralaya
Case Details
1 2025:CGHC:24025 NAFR HIGH COURT OF CHHATTISGARH AT BILASPUR WPS No. 4424 of 2025 1 - Bhuneshwar Prasad Sahu S/o Shri Rupnarayan Sahu Aged About 42 Years Working As Teacher (L.B.) At Govt. Middle School, Gandabordi, Block And Tahsil Kharsiya District Raigarh Chhattisgarh --- Petitioner(s) versus 1 - State Of Chhattisgarh Through The Secretary, Department Of School Education, New Mantralaya Mahanadi Bhawan New Raipur District Raipur Chhattisgarh 2 - The Director Public Instructions Directorate Indravati Bhawan, Raipur Atal Nagar Raipur District Raipur Chhattisgarh 3 - The Collector Raigarh, District Raigarh Chhattisgarh 4 - The Joint Director Education Division Bilaspur, District Bilaspur Chhattisgarh 5 - The District Education Officer Raigarh District Raigarh Chhattisgarh 6 - The Block Education Officer Kharsiya, District Raigarh Chhattisgarh --- Respondent(s) WPS No. 4443 of 2025
Legal Reasoning
1 - Smt. Jamuna Dhruw W/o Shri Birendra Kumar Dhruw Aged About 40 Years Working As Assistant Teacher (L.B.) At Govt. Primary School, Kundel, Block And Tahsil- Fingeshwar, District Gariyaband, Chhattisgarh. ---Petitioner(s) Versus 1 - State Of Chhattisgarh Through The Secretary, Department Of School Education, New Mantralaya, Mahanadi Bhawan, New Raipur, District Raipur, Chhattisgarh. VEDPRAKASH DEWANGAN Digitally signed by VEDPRAKASH DEWANGAN Date: 2025.06.14 13:46:53 +0530 2 2 - The Director Public Instructions Directorate Indravati Bhawan, Raipur, Atal Nagar, Raipur, Chhattisgarh. 3 - The Collector Gariyaband, District Gariyaband, Chhattisgarh. 4 - The Joint Director Education Division, Raipur, District Raipur, Chhattisgarh 5 - The District Education Officer, Gariyaband, District Gariyaband, Chhattisgarh. 6 - The Block Education Officer Fingeshwar, District Gariyaband, Chhattisgarh. --- Respondent(s) WPS No. 4446 of 2025 1 - Smt. Anusuya Dhruw W/o Shri Birendra Kumar Dhruw Aged About 39 Years Working As Assistant Teacher (L.B.) At Govt. Primary School Teka, Block And Tehsil Fingeshwar District - Gariyaband (C.G.) ---Petitioner(s) Versus 1 - State Of Chhattisgarh Through The Secretary, Department Of School Education New Mantralaya, Mahanadi Bhawan New Raipur District - Raipur (C.G.) 2 - The Director Public Instrucation Directorate Indrawati Bhawan Raipur Atal Nagar Raipur (C.G.) 3 - The Collector Gariyaband, District - Gariyaband (C.G.) 4 - The Joint Director Education Division Raipur District - Raipur (C.G.) 5 - The District Education Officer Gariyaband, District - Gariyaband (C.G.) 6 - The Block Education Office Fingeshwar, District - Gariyaband (C.G.) --- Respondent(s) WPS No. 4467 of 2025 1 - Smt. Lata Verma W/o Shri Santosh Kumar Verma Aged About 38 Years Working As Assistant Teacher (L.B.) At Govt. Primary School, Kamarpara Chhuiha, Block And Tahsil- Fingeshwar, District- Gariyaband (C.G.) ---Petitioner(s) Versus 1 - State Of Chhattisgarh Through The Secretary, Department Of School Education, New Mantralaya, Mahanadi Bhawan, New Raipur, District- Raipur (C.G.) 3 2 - The Director Public Instructions Directorate, Indravati Bhawan, Raipur, Atal Nagar, Raipur (C.G.) 3 - The Collector Gariyaband, District- Gariyaband (C.G.) 4 - Joint Director Education Division Raipur, District- Raipur (C.G.) 5 - The District Education Officer Gariyaband, District- Gariyaband (C.G.) 6 - The Block Education Officer Fingeshwar, District- Gariyaband (C.G.) --- Respondent(s) WPS No. 4510 of 2025 1 - Poshan Lal Sonkar S/o Shri Ganeshu Ram Sonkar Aged About 41 Years Working As Assistant Teacher (L.B.) At Govt. Primary School, Khapri Lachkera, Block And Tahsil- Fingeshwar, District- Gariyaband (C.G.) ---Petitioner(s) Versus 1 - State Of Chhattisgarh Through The Secretary, Department Of School Education, New Mantralaya, Mahanadi Bhawan New Raipur, District- Raipur (C.G.) 2 - The Director Public Instructions Directorate Indravati Bhawan Raipur, Atal Nagar Raipur (C.G.) 3 - The Collector Gariyaband, District- Gariyaband (C.G.) 4 - The Joint Director Education Division, Raipur District- Raipur (C.G.) 5 - The District Education Officer Gariyaband, District- Gariyaband (C.G.) 6 - The Block Education Officer Fingeshwar, District- Gariyaband (C.G.) --- Respondent(s) WPS No. 4529 of 2025 1 - Shrikant Sahu S/o Shri Alaram Sahu Aged About 32 Years Working As Agriculture Teacher In Govt. Higher Secondary School Kirwai, Block And Tahsil - Fingeshwar, District - Gariyaband (C.G.) ---Petitioner(s) Versus 1 - State Of Chhattisgarh Through The Secretary, Department Of School Education, New Mantralaya, Mahanadi Bhawan New Raipur, District - Raipur (C.G.) 4 2 - The Director Public Instructions Directorate Indravati Bhawan Raipur, Atal Nagar Raipur (C.G.) 3 - The Joint Director Education Division Raipur Tahsil And District - Raipur (C.G.) 4 - The District Education Officer Gariyaband, District - Gariyaband (C.G.) 5 - The Block Education Officer Fingeshwar District - Gariyaband (C.G.) 6 - The Principal Sant Kavi Pawan Diwan Govt. Higher Secondary School Kirwai, District- Gariyaband (C.G.) 7 - Dakeshwar Prasad Working As Agriculture Teacher, Sant Kavi Pawan Diwan Govt. Higher Secondary School Kirwai, District - Gariyaband (C.G.) --- Respondent(s) WPS No. 4542 of 2025 1 - Ghanshaym Kanwar S/o Shri Kartik Ram Kanwar Aged About 41 Years Working As Assistant Teacher (L.B.) At Govt. Primary School, Sirrikhurd, Block And Tahsil - Fingeshwar, District- Gariyaband (C.G.) ---Petitioner(s) Versus 1 - State Of Chhattisgarh Through The Secretary, Department Of School Education, New Mantralaya, Mahanadi Bhawan New Raipur, District- Raipur (C.G.) 2 - The Director Public Instructions Directorate Indravati Bhawan Raipur, Atal Nagar, Raipur (C.G.) 3 - The Collector Gariyaband, District- Gariyaband (C.G.) 4 - The Joint Director Education Division, Raipur, District- Raipur (C.G.) 5 - The District Education Officer Gariyaband, District- Gariyaband (C.G.) 6 - The Block Education Officer Fingeshwar, District- Gariyaband (C.G.) (Cause title taken from Case Information System) ... Respondent(s) For Petitioners For Respondents/ State : : Mr. R.S. Patel, Advocate Mr. Kanwaljeet Singh Saini, Panel Lawyer Mr. Anmol Sharma, Panel Lawyer Mr. Akhilesh Kumar, Govt. Advocate Ms. Smita Jha, Panel Lawyer 5 Hon'ble Shri Justice Ravindra Kumar Agrawal Order on Board 13/06/2025 1. By way of these writ petitions, the petitioners are challenging the impugned transfer orders and action of the respondents, whereby the petitioners have been declared surplus Teachers and consequently transferred under the Teacher Rationalization Instructions. 2. Learned counsel for the petitioners would submit that list of surplus Teachers published by the respondents is against the rationalization instructions, and the same is arbitrary as no proper opportunity of hearing was given to the petitioners, and if the petitioners are not granted interim relief, they will suffer
Decision
with irreparable loss. Therefore, the impugned order is liable to be set aside. 3. Learned counsel for the State would submit that after due verification of records, the petitioners have been transferred under the rationalization instructions issued by the State Government. Learned State counsel would further submit that if the petitioners are having any grievance, they may move fresh representation before the concerned District Rationalization Committee, and the Committee will take a decision on their representation in accordance with law within a stipulated period. 4. 5. I have heard learned counsel for the parties and perused the pleadings and documents. In view of submissions made by learned counsel for the parties, the petitioners are directed to make fresh representation before the concerned District Rationalization Committee within a period of 05 days from today, and appear before the said Committee on 19th June, 2025. Thereafter, the Committee shall decide the representation of the petitioners within 07 days from the date of receipt of representation in accordance with law, in objective manner. Till 6 decision on the representation is communicated to the petitioners, the impugned transfer order issued under Teacher Rationalization Instructions, so far as petitioners are concerned, be kept in abeyance. 6. With the aforesaid observation and direction, the present writ petitions stand disposed of. ved Sd/- (Ravindra Kumar Agrawal) Judge