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State can regulate minority institutions: SC
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- The Supreme Court recently held that the State is well within its rights to introduce a regulatory regime in the “national interest” to provide minority educational institutions with well-qualified teachers in order for them to “achieve excellence in education.”
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- Cannot Ignore Article 30:
(1) The managements of minority institutions cannot ignore such a legal regime by saying that it is their fundamental right under Article 30 of the Constitution to establish and administer their educational institutions according to their choice.
(2) Balancing the Objectives: The regulatory law should balance the dual objectives of ensuring standard of excellence as well as preserving the right of minorities to establish and administer their educational institution
(3) Regulations that embrace and reconcile the two objectives were reasonable.
- West Bengal Madrasah Service Commission Act of 2008
(1) The judgment came on a challenge to the validity of the West Bengal Madrasah Service Commission Act of 2008.
(2) The State Act mandated that the process of appointment of teachers in aided madrasahs, recognised as minority institutions, would be done by a Commission, whose decision would be binding.
Sources
The Hindu