The Madras High Court on Thursday called for the counter affidavit of the Tamil Nadu government to a public interest litigation petition that insisted on the providing of rent-free residential quarters for teachers of all government and private schools and colleges in the State.
A vacation bench of Justices C.V. Karthikeyan and Senthilkumar Ramamoorthy granted four weeks’ time for the filing of the counter affidavit to the PIL petition moved by advocate M. Purushothaman, who also insisted on the allotment of public land for the construction of these quarters.
Apart from his plea with respect to residential quarters, the litigant wanted the Centre as well as the State government to provide subsidies to teachers for purchasing houses, and also wanted banks and financial institutions to be directed to provide interest-free housing loans to them.
