How to Remove/Terminate Staff from Minority Educational Institutions in Telangana/AP

A.P. EDUCATION CODE

The Andhra Pradesh Minority Educational Institutions (Establishment Recognition And Regulation) Rules, 1988

[G.O.Ms.No.526, Education (Rules). Dt. 21-12-1988]

Appointment of Staff and Disciplinary Control Rules in Andhra Pradesh Minority Educational Institutions

Appointment of Staff and Disciplinary Control Rules in Telangana Minority Educational Institutions

A.P. EDUCATION CODE

Page No. 380

8. Appointment of staff and disciplinary Control: The appointments to the teaching and non-teaching posts in the institutions functioning under minority community managements shall be made with the candidates selected by the Staff Selection Committee constituted by the respective managements for the purpose. The candidates sponsored by Employment Exchange alone shall be entertained for interview for selection by the Staff Selection Committee. If the Employment Exchange is unable to sponsor suitable candidates, the educational agency may take advertisement in the daily newspapers having wide circulation calling for applications from the candidates possessing requisite qualifications for appointment to various posts after subjecting them to interview and selection by the Staff Selection Committee

    (1) It is open for the educational agency to constitute Staff Selection Committee on the lines prescribed by the Government for other private educational institutions or to adopt Staff Selection Committee of them own choice with or without a Government representative, (however there shall be a subject expert), in the latter case the management will not be eligible for financial and from the Government.

    (2) It is open for the educational agency to appoint candidates belonging to their own community or to those belonging to other communities in which case they will have to be treated on par with the candidates belonging to the concerned community in all respects. In either case the appointments made require scrutiny about their eligibility and followed by approval by the competent authority.

    (3) The staff appointed shall be paid salaries at the rates prescribed and by following the procedure prescribed by the competent authorities from time to time.

    (4) (a) It is open for the educational agency to to adopt the Rules and Regulations relating to the disciplinary  control of Staff prescribed by the Government for other non-minority institutions or to frame their own Rules and Regulations and abide by the same. The Rules and Regulations so framed shall not deviate from the usual norms and shall uphold the principles of natural justice. However, In the absence of Rules and Regulations framed by the educational agency, those prescribed by the Government for other private educational institutions shall prevail.

        (b) If the educational agency prefers to prescribe their own Rules and Regulations, they shall be framed and the approval of the competent authority obtained before making appointment of the staff. Any amendments to the Rules and Regulations so framed shall also have the approval of the competent authority. The competent authority can withhold approval of those Rules and Regulations and the amendments thereon only when, in his opinion, they are not in conformity with the principles of natural justice and may adversely affect the service conditions of the staff and/or basing on which they have accepted the appointments, as the case may be.

        (c) It is also open for the educational agencies of the existing minority educational institutions to frame such Rules and Regulations for their staff and approval of the Competent Authority therefor pending which those prescribed by Government shall prevail.

    (5) The educational agency is empowered to remove, terminate, dismiss or discharge a staff member only with the prior approval of the Competent Authority by following the Rules and Regulations prescribed by itself and got approved by the Competent Authority. The Competent Authority shall normally approve the action by the educational agency unless it considers that the action proposed is against the principles of natural justice and contrary to the Rules and Regulations adopted by the management itself.