Ranchi, July 20 -- In a landmark verdict with far-reaching social consequences, the Jharkhand High Court has quashed a decade-old government order that had denied recognition to several project schools - mostly girls' high schools-across the state's most backward and tribal districts.
The court found the 2010 rejection order "non-speaking" and violative of natural justice, directing the government to reconsider each case afresh within six months.
These schools, opened under the Bihar government's 1981 Project School Scheme, were part of a planned expansion in underserved blocks, especially in tribal regions such as Santhal Pargana, Palamu, Latehar, Giridih, Dumka, and Godda.
While the earlier phases of the scheme - 1981-82 and 1984-85 ...