1,100 AYUSH teachers across India get termination notice

The Central Council of Indian Medicine (CCIM), the Union authorities company regulating AYUSH training within the nation, has issued termination and debarment notices to over 1,100 teachers of Ayurveda and different faculties across India, on the cost of illegally serving in a couple of school.

In a bulk e mail despatched to such teachers, the CCIM has debarred them from serving as teachers in Ayurveda faculties for 10 years. The emails have been acquired from November 10 to 27.

This follows a round issued just a few months in the past by the AYUSH Ministry that faculties needed to clear up their roster checklist, by eradicating duplicate teachers, `on paper’ teachers, `ghost’ teachers, or teachers who have been serving in a couple of school on the similar time, in violation of norms.

The emails, titled `Withdrawal of Teacher codes’, say the recipient can’t educate for the subsequent decade.

Teachers say the notices are illegal as they don’t point out causes for dismissal, not based mostly on the penal provisions of any legislation, and would not have provisions for grievance redressal or attraction.

The All-India Ayurveda Teachers’ Association motion committee and different our bodies are urging the Union authorities to repeal the order. Its members say they are going to combat in opposition to the orders.

“The Union government has issued us notices in the form of emails, without either letterheads or signatures of any officer. We will not accept them. We will move the court against these orders. They are unjust and malicious. They have been issued without due diligence or application of mind. They are like photocopied pamphlets issued by a nameless body to random people in the market,” mentioned a instructor from a school in Belagavi who has acquired such a notice.

The motion committee has filed over 1,000 RTI functions to the CCIM and State AYUSH ministries in search of data on which the debarment notices have been issued.

Copies sought

“We have sought copies of all documents like records, advices/opinions, reports, papers, file notings, email communications and audio and video data , meeting notices/agenda copy, minutes of meetings, details of members present in meetings, and the relevant laws, sections, rules, regulations, and gazette notification copies that led to the change in teacher code status. We know that the Indian Medicine Central Council Act of 1970, which regulates AYUSH education, does not have any penal provisions. There is no mention of debarring teachers for 10 years. That is why, we have sought on what basis is the action being taken against us,” mentioned one other instructor who has filed a RTI utility.

“We are seeking the details of the offence committed by teachers, the punishment prescribed for each such offence, the authority empowered to punish, quantum of punishment, and the mode of punishment,” mentioned a instructor.

“We have written to the government demanding the constitution of a grievance redressal mechanism like a board of hearing, and the officers to be empanelled for it. Once we get replies to these questions, we will begin by asking the Union government to withdraw these orders. If it does not help us, we will go to the High Court as this order violates our fundamental right to work anywhere in the country and the legal right to be heard,” a instructor added.