Candidates are protesting regarding Uttar Pradesh teacher recruitment exam. Thousands of teachers are protesting outside the residence of Deputy CM Keshav Prasad Maurya in Lucknow. Teacher candidates are continuously raising slogans regarding UP 69000 teacher recruitment case. Candidates are saying ‘Yogi ji do justice… Keshav uncle do justice’. Due to the increasing protest, police force is also present there. There is great anger among the teacher candidates. It is being told that the police has also lathi-charged the teacher candidates protesting outside the house of Deputy CM Keshav Prasad Maurya.
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, OBC category got only 3.86% reservation instead of 27%, that is, OBC category got only 2637 seats out of 18598 seats. Whereas at that time the government said that about 31 thousand people of OBC category were appointed. On this statement of the government, the candidates cited Basic Education Rules-1981 and Reservation Rules 1994 and said that out of the 31 thousand people of 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 OBC category in the scope 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)