Issuance of NoC Certificate for Music Teacher for Blind School - Pcgt

Issuance of NoC Certificate for Music Teacher for Blind School

Happy Home and School for the Blind, Worli, urgently needed a music teacher and had requested the Social Justice and Special Assistance Department to allow them to recruit one. However, since Social Justice (SJ) and Special Assistance Department were unable to find time for themselves to join the School in the recruitment process, they asked the School to appoint a teacher and they will then provide the NOC after the trust appoints a music teacher in January 2018. Though the Trust, which runs the School for the Blind, had recruited and appointed the Music Teacher, the Social Justice and Special Assistance Department (SAD) delayed the issue of the NOC, thus resulting in non-payment of salary to the newly appointed Music Teacher. On a complaint of the Trust to the effect, the PCGT helped them file an RTI application in May, 2018, before the Social Justice and Special Assistance Dept. of Mumbai, seeking to know the timelines and procedures for issue of the NoC. Finally, after the First Appeal hearing, the file relating to the NOC had reached Competent Authority to issue the NOC at Pune in October 2018 and the same was collected by the School authorities and paid the pending salary of the Music Teacher, waiting for the reimbursement of the same from the SJ & SAD.