Issuing the direction, a Bench of Chief Justice of India Surya Kant and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and V Mohana passed the order in a case related to Assam’s teacher provincialisation scheme.

CJI Kant said that “If we keep appointing unqualified persons as teachers, it will destroy the future of students.”

“These kind of things will destroy future generation.”, the Bench added.

The order was passed by the Court while issuing notice on a PIL challenging the Assam Education (Provincialisation of Services of Teachers and Re-organisation of Educational Institutions) Act, 2017.

Senior Advocate Ranjit Kumar appearing for the petitioner told the Court that Assam appointed teachers who were locals to ensure the schools were running and later passed a validating amendment to the 2017 Act in 2018.

The High Court’s division bench in a judgment dated October 4, 20 24 looked into the constitutional validity of the provincialisation scheme and directed the State to ensure that there is a regular pay scale for affected teachers which is commensurate with the scale prescribed under the governing Act.

Further, Kumar informed the apex Court that the High Court has also passed observations regarding teachers who were found to be unqualified as well and directed that they shall continue to receive full salaries.