Kerala govt to regularise 20,000 aided school teachers pending SC verdict

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Kerala Education Minister V. Sivankutty (file)

Kerala Education Minister V. Sivankutty (file) | Photo Credit: ANI Video Grab

The Kerala authorities has decided to widen the relaxation allowed to Nair Service Society (NSS) connected appointments to posts different than those reserved for the otherwise abled to different aided schoolhouse managements too, taxable to the verdict connected petitions pending earlier the Supreme Court.

Addressing a property league successful Thiruvananthapuram connected Wednesday, Minister for General Education V. Sivankutty said astir 20,000 teachers moving successful aided schools would payment from the decision. All benefits owed to them from the day of assignment would beryllium ensured, the Minister said.

The lawsuit related to the appointments volition beryllium taken up by the Supreme Court connected April 14. However, since the archetypal signifier of otherwise abled appointments done the district-level committees acceptable up arsenic per a Supreme Court directive was completed connected January 24 and the 2nd signifier had begun and successful the aftermath of a High Court Single Bench directive that different petitioners excessively were eligible for the relaxation fixed to NSS and the authorities seeking the sentiment of the Advocate General yet again, it was decided to regularise appointments made to wide class posts too, helium said.

The authorities had besides obtained the ineligible sentiment that regularisation of 442 teachers who had submitted peculiar permission petitions should beryllium paused till the last verdict by the apex tribunal oregon it would magnitude to contempt of court, helium said.

Published - February 18, 2026 04:21 p.m. IST

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