Hyderabad, July 21 -- The Telangana High Court on Monday, July 20, has directed the state government to complete certificate verification of over 700 junior lecturers working in government-run Intermediate colleges within two months, and to then take a decision on granting them the benefits due after their services were made permanent, including their pending annual pay increments.

Justice K Sharath passed the directions while disposing of a batch of petitions filed by the aggrieved lecturers, whose services had already been made permanent, or "regularised," through government orders issued on May 1, 2023.

What the lecturers argued

The petitioners told the court that even though their services stood regularised under these government o...