UP Teacher Recruitment: Future of 69,000 teacher in court hands, CJI seeks response from Yogi government

UP Teacher Recruitment: In the Supreme Court hearing the petition related to the 69,000 teacher recruitment case in Uttar Pradesh and stayed the order of the Allahabad High Court. The Chief Justice (CJI) said that the decision of the High Court will remain suspended for the time being and the next hearing will be held on 25 September.

2petition filed in this matter

The Chief Justice has suspended the order issued by the High Court last month and fixed the date of next hearing on September 25. However the teacher recruitment case in Uttar Pradesh, the Supreme Court said that the matter is serious and it may affect the people working. While the CJI directed all the concerned parties to submit written arguments and said that the court will hold the final hearing on this matter.

Petition on 69,000 teacher recruitment

In the meanwhile the Court said that it will give the order after examining the legal aspects of the matter. The High Court had canceled the merit list on the basis of non-compliance of reservation rules. This may affect about 19000 people who have been working for 4 years.

Court said to present arguments in writing

The court said that time is needed for a thorough review of the High Court's decision. The Supreme Court asked both the parties to submit their written arguments in maximum 7 pages each. The court appointed 2 nodal lawyers for this. The state government was also asked to file a reply on the hole matter related to the future of the teacher in Uttar Pradesh.

The decision of Allahabad High Court

While Allahabad High Court had canceled the selection lists of June 2020 and January 2022 and directed the Uttar Pradesh government to issue a new selection list within three months on the basis of the Assistant Teacher Recruitment Examination of 2019. HoweverThe High Court had also said that if a candidate from the reservation category scores marks equal to the merit of the general category, then his selection should be considered under the general category. This decision has caused concern among many teachers already working in the state.

Stay on High Court's decision

However 'Supreme' order in 69 thousand teacher future, has in court hands, while the CJI put  stay on High Court's decision to cancel merit list . while hearing the petition filed in this matter, The Chief Justice suspended the order issued by the High Court last month and said putting the jobs of thousands of teachers at risk is not worth.

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 Reservation Rules of 1994 and Basic Education Rules of 1981

Hence worth Along with this, the government was also ordered to follow Section 3 (6) of the Reservation Rules 1994 and Basic Education Rules 1981. The result of the assistant teacher recruitment examination was ordered to be released afresh. In its August decision, the Allahabad High Court canceled the selection lists of June 2020 and January 2022 and ordered the UP government to release a new selection list for 69 thousand teachers in three months on the basis of the assistant teacher recruitment examination held in 2019. While these 69 thousand teacher living in fear losing their jobs due to the court's decision.

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