(1) The School Management Committee constituted under section 21 of the Act shall be the first level of grievance redressal forum for teachers and it shall redress their grievance within 30 days.
(2) There shall be a District Level Grievance Redressal Committee to redress the grievances of the teachers at the second level.
If the grievances are not redressed at the first level, the teacher has the liberty to approach the District Level Grievance Redressal Committee.
(3) The committee under sub-rule (2) above shall consist of Collector/Regional Administrator, Director of School Education or his/ her nominee, Senior Superintendent/Superintendent of Police, Deputy Director (Administration) or his/her nominee, a nominee from Health Department not below the rank of Deputy Director preferably a woman, Deputy Director of Department of Adi-Dravidar Welfare and Chief Educational Officer/Delegate to the Director of School Education.
335PART–II] LA GAZETTE DE L'ETAT The Collector/Regional Administrator will be the Chairman of the committee. The Chief Educational Officer/Delegate to the Director of School Education will be the Convener.
(4) The committee shall meet whenever required.
(5) Any teacher of the school established, owned, controlled or aided by the State Government may submit his/her grievance in writing to the Convener of the committee. The committee after enquiry, as it deems fit, will redress the grievance within 90 days. The Convener of the committee will communicate the decision to the teacher.
(6) At the third level, there shall be an Appellate Authority;
Secretary (Education) will be the Appellate Authority.
(7) Every unaided private school shall develop its own mechanism for redressal of grievances of teachers within three months of the notification of the rules and communicate it to the Directorate of School Education.