Teachers beware,polygamy may cost you your job

They would be disqualified if they happen to have more than one spouse. The new fiat is applicable to both male as well as female teachers.

If a male teacher having a wife,marries another woman or enters into a contract of marriage with another woman,he will be disqualified to be appointed as a teacher or headmaster.

Similarly,if a woman marries a man or enters into a contractual wedding with a man already having a wife will not be eligible for the post of a teacher or headmaster in any grant-in-aid private schools.

The new fiat has been issued by the State Education Department recently and circulated to all the grant-in-aid schools across the state.

The candidates,according to the notification,will have to furnish these information at the time of making applications for the job itself.

However,the state government has exempted from the operation of this rule all those whose personal laws permit more than one marriage. But exemption as per the notification can be claimed and would be considered only if the personal laws of both the parties allow multiple marriages.

The new guidelines are a part of the new recruitment rules framed by the state government for grant-in-aid secondary and senior secondary schools in the state.

Retired principal Bhaskarbhai R Patel,who has won the best teacher award at the national level,said that the rules pertaining to plural marriages were extended for the first time in private-run schools. However,Patel welcomed the state government move,saying it was right thing to do.

Principal Secretary (Education) Hansmukh Adhia said that since the registered private schools received monetary grants from the state government and teachers working there were beneficiaries,they needed to be brought under the operation of the Bombay Civil Service Rules for the state government employees.