Chandigarh: Going by the suggestions of Punjab and Haryana high court, the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration (LBSNAA), Mussoorie, Uttarakhand, which trains Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officers, has finally decided to make improvements in its teaching system.
Last week, the HC had asked the Union of India (UOI) to apprise it why the ‘subject of administrative law’, especially the principles of natural justice, should not be mandatorily included in the syllabus of the IAS trainees at the LBSNAA Mussoorie.
During the hearing on Thursday before the bench of Justice Jasgurpreet Singh Puri, the faculty members of the LBSNAA, Mussoorie,d, present in the court through video conferencing assured the bench of improvement. . “The faculty members of the academy have assured that various improvements in the teaching system will be carried out, and a report will be submitted to the additional solicitor general of India within two weeks,” the HC has recorded in its order.
The matter is pending before the HC in the wake of a bunch of petitions filed by employees of Uttar Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam Limited. During the hearing, the judge had taken cognizance that in a number of cases, the appellate authority does not pass orders, and the orders are passed by subordinate authorities, either with appellate authority’s approval or the appeal is rejected.The HC had also observed that power utilities and many other in Haryana do not have robust legal assistance systems.