MSU’s tech,engg teachers win conveyance case

The state government’s decision was challenged by two teachers from the Faculty of Technology & Engineering at the tribunal. Representing the two petitioners,advocate Sona Sagar argued that if the allowance is granted for other faculties falling under University Grants Commission,the members of the Faculty of Technology & Engineering falling under All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) are similarly placed and so they too should be granted the conveyance allowance. Upholding the petitioners’ arguments,the tribunal had held that the state government’s decision violated petitioners’ constitutional rights and directed the authorities to pay arrears to all the faculty members at 10 per cent interest.

M S University is the only grant-in-aid university in Gujarat having the Faculty of Technology & Engineering. The state government had challenged the tribunal’s judgment at the High Court. However,the appeal was rejected by a single-judge bench.

The state government then preferred an appeal in the Division Bench,which recently rejected it,while upholding the tribunal’s order.