BHUBANESWAR: Troubled with numerous litigations, the School and Mass Education Department has decided to appoint advisors who will deal with the ever growing case load. Currently, there are about 23,000 cases against the Department and it has to spend considerably on human resource as well as financially to deal with the litigations. To find a way out, the Department had sought permission from the Finance Department to appoint five advisors whose job, exclusively, will be to analyse and suggest ways to settle the cases. They will go through various cases disposed of by the Orissa Administrative Tribunal, the High Court and Supreme Court and then recommend ways to settle the ongoing cases. The advisors will have the responsibility of classifying cases and chart out action plan for each category. While doing this, they will also take into account the financial and legal implications. In fact, the Department has already begun the process of reducing the case load by computerising the litigations. The 23,000 cases have already been placed in 39 categories basing on which the action plans will be drawn. One of the objectives of appointing the advisors would be to give relief to the Department employees since the load is huge and resources spent are considerable. Since the Department has to deal with thousands of teachers, disposal of cases would help their cause too. The School and Mass Education Department, aiming that the process will help settle 10,000 cases a year, believes that teaching and non-teaching staff will not have to knock the doors of the courts once such cases are resolved. Earlier this year, the Department activated its grievance redressal mechanism in a bid to reduce the growing number of cases. “Since September 2010, we heard as many as 2,804 cases and disposed of 800 cases. This meant we prevented at least 800 staff from knocking on the doors of the court of law,” said an official.
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