After the Allahabad High Court’s decision on the recruitment of 69000 assistant teachers in Uttar Pradesh, a big meeting of the UP Education Department is going to be held on Sunday, 18 August 2024. The recruitment process will be discussed in the presence of UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath. All the officers of the department including the Education Minister will be present in this meeting.
According to information received from sources, it will be decided in the meeting whether the government will implement the decision of the High Court or appeal in the SC. Because the Lucknow Bench of Allahabad High Court has canceled the merit list of 69000 assistant teacher recruitment in UP and has also ordered to release the result of the recruitment examination afresh within 90 days.
The double bench of the High Court has ordered to prepare a new list by setting aside the selection list released in June 2020 and the selection list of 6800 candidates of January 5, 2022. This order has not only shocked the UP government, but the preparation of the new selection list has also created a state of confusion for thousands of teachers who have been working for the last 4 years. However, the court said in the order that if any assistant teacher currently working is adversely affected, then the benefit of the current session should be given so that the studies of the students are not adversely affected.
What did the High Court say?
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.
What do the candidates say?
The protesting candidates claimed that in the 69 thousand teacher recruitment, the OBC category got only 3.86% reservation instead of 27%, i.e. the OBC category got only 2637 seats out of 18598 seats. The SC category also got only 16.6% reservation instead of 21%.
The candidates allege that out of the 69 thousand teacher recruitment, 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.
He said that it is clear in this rule book 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 means he should not be counted in the ambit of reservation. Whereas at that time the government said that about 31 thousand OBC category people were appointed.
Let us tell you that the exam for this recruitment for 69 thousand assistant teacher posts was held on 6 January 2019. The cutoff for unreserved category for this recruitment was 67.11 percent and the cutoff for OBC was 66.73 percent. Under this recruitment, about 68 thousand people have got jobs.
Source (PTI) (NDTV) (HINDUSTANTIMES)