Curious anomalies have engulfed the Department of Youth Service and Sports (DYSS) of the State. In the beginning when the branch was opened in early sixties, Youth Service and Sports remained part of the Education Department. The department got independent status in 1973. Consequently, Physical Education Teachers or Physical Education Masters were placed at par with their counterparts in the Education Department in terms of grade, promotion and other benefits. However, DYSS after its re-organization in the year 2006 made series of endeavours and succeeded in establishing its own rules in 2015, but is yet to implement the same in letter and spirit, leaving a big number of DYSS employees in the lurch. We have not been able to know why the rules and regulations freshly framed in 2015 have remained unimplemented till date and in this way the incumbents are subjected to loss both financially and in terms of status. It is rather puzzling that in-charge District Officers, Assistant Directors and even Deputy Directors, working in the Department of Youth Services and Sports have been and are retiring as Physical Education Masters just because new rules framed for the staff of the department are not enforced. The anomaly is that while Physical Education Teachers and Physical Education Masters are paid at par with the Teachers and Masters of the Education Department, Physical Education Lecturers have been receiving a curt treatment with regard to their confirmation and Pay Scale despite clear-cut directions by the High Court vide No-14163 dated 31-08-2012. It is regrettable that a task which the Department of Youth Service and Sports should have done on its own after new rules were framed had to be taken to the court of law by the aggrieved functionaries where they won the case. The apathy towards these aggrieved employees is to the extent that authorities are not willing even to respect the court order. Is the Government now waiting that the aggrieved teachers will file contempt of court and then it will move to do them justice. Where is the law of accountability and where is the rule of justice and equitable treatment which are the corner stone of any good governance.
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