Last Updated on 17/08/2024 by wccexam Desk
The big decision of the High Court has come in the 69000 teacher recruitment case. The Lucknow Bench of Allahabad High Court has canceled the merit list of teacher recruitment. The government has also been ordered to issue the result of 69,000 assistant teacher recruitment examination afresh. This order has shocked the UP government, and along with this, thousands of teachers who have been working for the last 4 years are also in a state of confusion due to the preparation of the new selection list. Let’s know what this whole controversy is…
What is the whole matter and where did the dispute start
When Akhilesh government was in power in Uttar Pradesh, 1 lakh 37 thousand Shikshamitras were adjusted as assistant teachers. After this, the matter reached the Supreme Court and the adjustment was cancelled. That is, the Shikshamitras who were made assistant teachers by the Akhilesh government became Shikshamitras again. Now after this, the Supreme Court ordered the Yogi government to recruit for 1 lakh 37 thousand posts. The Yogi government told the Supreme Court that we cannot fill so many posts at once. Then the Supreme Court ordered to fill all the posts in two phases. After this order, the Yogi government first issued vacancies for 68500 posts in 2018. After this, the second phase of recruitment was 69000 assistant teacher recruitment.
Where did the controversy start?
The exam for this recruitment for 69 thousand assistant teacher posts was held on 6 January 2019. The cutoff for unreserved category was 67.11 percent and the cutoff for OBC was 66.73 percent. Under this recruitment, about 68 thousand people got jobs.
But this is where the question arose that reservation rules were ignored in the 69000 recruitment. Basic Education Rules 1981 were not followed properly. The candidates of 69000 recruitment who came out on the streets to protest against this said that it is clear in this rule that if an OBC candidate scores more marks than the cutoff of the unreserved category, then he will get a job in the unreserved category and not from the OBC quota. That is, he will not be counted in the scope of reservation.
After this, the matter of 69 thousand teacher recruitment got complicated. The protesting candidates claimed that in the 69 thousand teacher recruitment, the OBC category got only 3.86% reservation instead of 27%, that is, the OBC category got only 2637 seats out of 18598 seats. Whereas at that time the government said that about 31 thousand people from the OBC category were appointed.
On this statement of the government, the candidates, citing the Basic Education Rules-1981 and the Reservation Rules 1994, said that out of the 31 thousand people of the OBC category who have been appointed, about 29 thousand were entitled to get seats from the unreserved category. The protesting candidates said that we should not include 29 thousand people of the OBC category in the ambit of reservation.
Similarly, the candidates allege that out of the 69 thousand teacher recruitment, SC category got only 16.6% reservation instead of 21%. The candidates claimed that there was a scam of about 19 thousand seats in the recruitment of 69 thousand teachers. They also went to the High Court regarding this and also complained to the National Backward Commission.
The case was pending in the High Court
The matter of reservation irregularities in the recruitment of 69 thousand teachers was pending in the High Court for a long time. There were allegations of irregularities regarding the reservation of 19 thousand seats in teacher recruitment. Many people went to court alleging discrepancies in this. The High Court has cancelled the merit list considering the current list of 69000 assistant teachers as wrong. The court has ordered the Uttar Pradesh government to prepare a new merit list within 3 months. In this, orders have been given to do it under the rules of reservation and Basic Education Rules.
Has reservation scam really happened?
On the condition of anonymity, a teacher candidate said that now that the government’s statements have come in the High Court and the court’s order to cancel the merit list has come. In such a situation, once again questions have started arising whether there was really no reservation scam in the state. Last year in March 2023, the Lucknow Bench of Allahabad High Court considered the list of 69000 assistant teacher recruitment as wrong and ordered to make the list again.
Source (PTI) (NDTV) (HINDUSTANTIMES)