The High Court on Sunday ordered the authorities concerned to recruit 285 people with disabilities, who have been qualified the written tests in 2018 and 2020 to the posts of primary school teachers under the quota system.
The court also asked to complete the recruitment process of those people with disabilities on the basis of quota system in government primary schools in the country within 90 days.
The HC bench of Justice Naima Haider and Justice Kazi Zeenat Haque issued the order on Sunday (January 14) following four separate writ petitions filed in this regard.
Advocate Mohammad Siddique Ullah Miah stood for the petitioners in the court, while Deputy Attorney General Amit Das Gupta represented the state.
Calling the HC order an exemplary verdict, Advocate Siddique Ullah expressed hope that the authorities concerned will execute the order as soon as possible.
A total of 245 candidates with disabilities submitted the four separate writ petitions with the High Court challenging the legality of
not recruiting them despite the quota system.
The High Court had issued rules following the writ petitions, asking the authorities concerned to explain why their decision not to fulfill the 10 percent quota by recruiting the qualified candidates with disabilities should not be declared illegal.
Secretaries to the ministries of Primary and Mass Education and Public Administration, and director general of the Directorate of Primary Education had been made respondents to the rule.
Last year, the government recruited 37,574 people for primary schools as assistant teachers.
On January 17 of the same year, the HC ordered to reserve posts for 114 people with disabilities in government primary schools across the country.
Moreover, the HC issued a rule asking to explain as to why people with disabilities won’t be recruited under the quota.
On December 11 last year, the final hearing of the petition ended but the court set January 14 this year for delivering the verdict.
