No hasty orders in educational matters

CHENNAI: Courts should not be in haste to pass interim orders in educational matters, since there is every possibility of an irregularity being imposed on the authorities to implement, a division bench of the Madras High Court has observed. The bench comprising Justice Elipe Dharma Rao and Justice M Venugopal made the observation while dismissing a writ appeal from the Commissioner of Employment and Training, Chennai and the Regional Joint Director, Coimbatore, on September 8.The appeal challenged the orders dated July 11, 2008 of a single judge directing the authorities to publish the results of 17 students of Sapthagiri Pee Gee Industrial Training Centre in Dharmapuri. By an earlier order, a single judge had directed the authorities to permit the students to write the exams even though the institute lacked equipment and other infrastructure.Dismissing the appeal, the bench also observed that the educational authorities should come out of their slackness and conduct regular and frequent inspection of the institutions and to keep up the standards.The bench hoped and trusted that the governments at the State and the Centre would take steps to see that the standards of education were maintained at all times and levels and take stringent action against the persons who were making mockery of the entire system by adopting slow-pace attitude and ‘facilitating’ the institutions to perpetuate illegality and thereafter rush to the courts, mostly playing sympathy for the students as their trump card.