The High Court asked the UP government to explain the process followed to appoint 69,000 teachers
Lucknow:
The Allahabad High Court today suspended the appointment of 69,000 basic auxiliary teachers in Uttar Pradesh. A Lucknow bench from the High Court scheduled the next hearing on July 12.
Justice Alok Mathur’s order comes days after Supreme Court asked for a response from the UP government on how to challenge the High Court verdict, which upheld the state’s decision to maintain thresholds higher for these appointments.
On May 21, the Supreme Court asked the state government to explain the process for appointments through a chart.
A bench of judges UU Lalit, MM Shantanagoudar and Vineet Saran had initially refused to interfere with the verdict of the High Court. But he later changed his order and sent a notice to the state government, posting the question for a new hearing on July 6.
He asked the government of Uttar Pradesh to explain why it changed the previous criteria of 45 percent cut points for the general category and 40 percent for the reserved category. The higher court requested a detailed response before July 6.
The Supreme Court said that the case required a detailed hearing as there were many parties and it would be preferable for the pleas to be adjourned until the resumption of the hearings.
Several petitions, including those from individuals and the Uttar Pradesh Prathmik Shiksha Mitra Association, had been filed against the May 6 decision of the Lucknow bench in the High Court of Allahabad.
In its May 6 verdict, the High Court ordered the state government to complete the process of appointing 69,000 assistant teachers in Uttar Pradesh within the next three months.
The process was almost already complete thanks to the interim division bench guidelines released on May 29 of last year and only the outcome was to be announced.
The division bench had previously set aside the single bench order which had set aside the government order setting 65 percent of qualification points for general category applicants and 60 percent for reserved category applicants.
The single bench had indicated that the minimum limit would be 45% for general candidates and 40% for reserved candidates.
On July 25, 2017, the tribunal de grande instance had asked the state government to cancel the recruitment of 137,717 appointments through the teacher eligibility test (TET), but to give them experience in the recruitment process.
Six months later, the government ordered for the first time a written examination for assistant teacher positions to hire 69,000 teachers.
(With the exception of the title, this story was not edited by GalacticGaming staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)
