The Calcutta High Court dismissed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed by a teacher alleging that a decision taken by the School Education Department of the State of West Bengal postponing the Summer Vacation on account of extreme weather conditions, is not proper.
The Division Bench of Chief Justice T. S. Sivagnanam and Justice Hrranmay Bhattacharyya are of the view that the matter is not proper for the Court to interfere as it is for the authority of the Education Department to take assistance of the teachers and other persons to make an informed decision.
If the State feels that the children will be jeopardized, when they are to attend school on account of heat waves, it is well open to the authority to make a decision , the Bench observed.
Thus, the Bench found that no grounds have been made out by the petitioner, who herself is a teacher, to interfere with such a decision.
With the above observation, the petition was dismissed by the High Court.