AGARTALA, June 27 (TIWN): The High Court of Tripura on Friday cancelled separate roster maintained by the State government since 2001 for fixed-pay employees and regular employees terming the practice ‘illegal’.Advocate Mandal Debbarma, who moved the case in the Court on behalf of petitioner Rajesh Debbarma, today said that the Court asked the government to follow the existing roster.

A month after the High Court issued a verdict to cancel 10,323 jobs of Graduate, Under Graduate and Post Graduate Teachers inducted since 2010, a bench headed by Justice Subhashish Talapatra today cancelled the revised roster policy for Group C and Group D employees and said that the state government couldn’t introduced to introduce the separate roster policy, advocate Debbarma informed.

The counsel further said that the High Court noted that the state would have to follow the existing roster policy for government employees.

The separate roster policy was introduced in Tripura in 2005 as a follow-up of a 2001 decision of the state cabinet.

“The way the government had introduced the separate roster policy was totally illegal. State government can’t introduce separate roster policy. The existing roster policy has to be followed by the state government”, commented the High Court. Debbarma added that the state government might face serious consequences if further pursuits were made with the Court seeking directives on the roster issue.