order dated 22.6.1998, the Deputy
Director of Education, Kollam appointed the petitioner as Physical
Education Teacher (High School) and he joined duty ... Physical Education Teachers are Specialist Teachers. According to the
appellants, Specialist Teachers are entitled only to the scale of pay of PD
Teachers. The appellants
interpreted that Higher Secondary School can have only Physical Education Director apart from three Physical Education Teachers in the High School. The reasonable and possible ... physical education for the students. When such is the position, the government is required to give much importance to physical education. Hence the physical education
except as specified herein:
(a) One post of specialist teacher namely Music Teacher or Physical Education Teacher or Drawing Teacher or Sewing Teacher as decided ... importance of Physical Education has been emphasised. It has been inter alia provided in Rule 4(4) that Physical Education (physical drill, gymnastic, small area
qualification by acquiring the Master of Physical Education degree.
The respondent No.1 passed the Bachelor of Physical Education in
the first class from ... though an Assistant Teacher of
Physical Education was not required to have a post graduate degree in
Physical Education, in terms of the staff pattern
physical education teachers shall be such as provided in National Council for Teacher Education (Determination of Minimum Qualifications for Recruitment of Teachers in Schools) Regulation ... Science, etc. In respect of teachers for Physical Education, the minimum qualification norms for Physical Education teachers referred to in NCTE Regulation dated 3rd November
Bachelor of Physical Education
53.
BPE
Bachelor of Physical Education
100.
MPE
Master of Physical Education
101
MP Ed.
Master of Physical Education ... includes non-formal education, part-time education, adult education and correspondence education. Section 2 (m) defines ''teacher education qualification' to mean
physical education in the years
1996 to1999, petitioners got themselves enrolled with the employment exchanges
of their respective areas for their appointments as Physical Education ... year diploma in
physical education, they also became ineligible amongst other candidates to be
appointed against the post of Physical Education Teacher and as such
Education Department, dated 1.4.1982, which states that one post of Physical Education Teacher is allowed to High Schools, if the student strength exceeds ... having understood the importance of physical education to the students of the School, appointed a qualified physical education teacher during the academic year
Science, etc. In respect of teachers
for Physical Education, the minimum qualification norms
for Physical Education teachers referred to in NCTE
Regulation dated 3rd November ... However in respect of
teachers for physical education, the minimum qualification
norms for physical education teachers referred to in NCTE
Regulation dated 3rd November
fill up the District Inspector of Physical Education post formerly Regional Inspector of Physical Education with the Physical Education Director Grade I officers ... Physical Education and they were recruited directly without adequate experience and the Physical Education Director Grade II were promoted from the Physical Education Teacher posts
