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| Tuesday, 19 August 2003 |
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by Wasantha Ramanayake The act of disrobing nullified the qualifications obtained by the petitioners, and the nullity can not be made valid by the service rendered by them since the disrobing, stated the Secretary to the Provincial Public Service Commission (PPSC) North Western Province in his objections in a Fundamental Rights Application. Petitioners a group of teachers who were earlier monks later disrobed themselves had filed the application in the Supreme Court against the invalidation of their appointments. W. A. Tissera Secretary to the PPSC North Western Province stated that the plaintiffs were appointed to the areas in the North Western Province where there were temples for them to stay and they could abide by Vinaya. However, they preferred to stay in houses with the lay community. He also stated that PPSC had the authority to cancel the appointments of the petitioners. The petitioners stated that they had faced tremendous difficulty in obtaining Dana and were forced to live with laymen due to the non availability of accommodation in temples. Since they could not abide by Vinaya under such conditions they disrobed at various occasions. The petitioners claimed that they had been bhikkhus who were trained at the Sariputthra College of Education and after the conclusion of their training they were posted to the difficult areas in the North Western province as Assistant Teachers mainly to teach Buddhism. They stated that they received letters invalidating their appointments after they disrobed themselves. Many others in similar circumstances had also received identical letters, claimed the petitioners. The petitioners stated that there was no requirement that a person should continue to be a bhikkhu after he was given an appointment as an assistant teacher. |
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