Chandigarh, Oct. 29 -- The Punjab and Haryana high court on Tuesday sought a response from the secretary, department of school education, Punjab, on a suo motu plea over reported poor infrastructure in state schools.

The matter was sent for suo motu proceedings by the bench of justice NS Shekhawat in September, when it came across two petitions, one challenging the decision of local authorities not to relieve a teacher from a middle school, despite his transfer order. Later, it had come to fore that said petitioner was the only teacher in an Amritsar school. The second petition was from a woman primary teacher, who was in court regarding a dispute over her deputation to a school in Ludhiana that had just one teacher.

"It appears that th...