Last Updated on 18/08/2024 by wccexam Desk
After the High Court’s decision in the UP 69000 teacher recruitment case, on one hand the future of many teachers is in limbo, while on the other hand political upheaval is also continuing. In fact, the Lucknow Bench of Allahabad High Court has canceled the merit list of teacher recruitment. The government has also been ordered to release the result of the 69,000 assistant teacher recruitment exam afresh. Teachers are now preparing to go to the Supreme Court on this decision of the court.
The candidates of the unreserved category are preparing to challenge this decision of the High Court in the Supreme Court. According to Dharmendra Mishra, the state in-charge of the Unreserved Student Front, the reservation rules of 1994 should be applicable only in a direct recruitment for which there is only one exam. Himanshu Dubey, the state general secretary of the Unreserved Competitive Student Front, and Nitesh Singh said that they are not satisfied with the High Court’s decision. In a single recruitment which takes place in several stages, giving the benefit of reservation at every stage increases the scope of reservation, which violates the fundamental rights of unreserved candidates. We will challenge this order in the Supreme Court.
This decision of the High Court is being considered a big setback for the UP government. According to the information, CM Yogi will hold a meeting with the Basic Education Officers on Sunday to chalk out further strategy on this issue. This meeting will be held in Lucknow at 5.30 pm. Education Minister Sandeep Singh along with the Chief Secretary, Principal Secretary, Advocate General and Additional Advocate General will attend this meeting.
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 69 thousand recruitments. 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 any OBC candidate scores more marks than the cutoff of unreserved category, then he will get a job in unreserved category and not from 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 recruitment of 69 thousand teachers, 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.
Source (PTI) (NDTV) (HINDUSTANTIMES)