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_______________________________________________________________________________ The ratio for appointment as Principal from experienced Aided Higher Secondary School Teachers and Headmasters of Aided High Schools is fixed as 2:1. Several Government Orders were also issued after the framing of the rules to clarify the position. But in supercession of the earlier orders,- Government Order, G.O.(MS) No. 338/2003/G.Edn. dated 16.12.2003, was issued, which reads as follows;

"In supercession of all the orders in the matter of placement of Principals in Higher Secondary Schools in the State, Government order as follows:-

6. We have seen that the applications invited for starting new Schools, etc. referred earlier would show that Managers of existing Aided High Schools and Headmasters of the Government High Schools have submitted applications for starting new Higher Secondary Schools attached to the above. A Full Bench of this Court in Varghese v. Deputy Director of Education (2000(2) KLT109(FB)) held that as per the provisions of K.E.R., upgradation of High Schools to Higher Secondary Schools is not possible. In that decision Mr. Justice Arijit Pasayat, C.J. (as he then was) held as follows: