SC Stays Allahabad High Court Verdict Asking UP Govt To Annul Merit List Of 69,000 Assistant Teachers

The Supreme Court has stayed the order passed by Allahabad High Court asking the UP government to prepare a fresh selection list of 69,000 assistant teachers in the state. The next hearing will be on September 23. The state High Court passed the verdict on August 17.

The division bench ordered the state government to prepare a new merit list based on Asst. Teacher’s Recruitment Exam (ATRE-19) within three months, by following section 3(6) of the Reservation Rules 1994 and Basic Education Rules 1981.

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As the government had already recruited 67,867 candidates in two batches in 2020 based on the ATRE held on Jan 6, 2019, the court said that those appointed should not suffer and shall be given the session benefit.

The advertisement was released in December 2018 for 69,000 primary teachers in the state. On Jan 6, 2019, a qualifying examination was held to shortlist the candidates and on Jan 7, the govt fixed 97 marks (65%) out of the total 150 marks as the cut-off for the general category and 90 (60%) for the reserved category.

Total 4.09 lakh candidates appeared for the exama nd 1.46 lakh were declared successful.

The basic education department started the recruitment process in June 2020 and nearly 67,867 recruitments were made out of the 69,000 posts and 1,133 posts of STs were shown vacant due to the non-availability of the candidates.

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However, the issue emerged when nearly 19,000 candidates allegedly claim to belong to the reserved categories but were denied quota benefits. A number of reserved category candidates moved to the high court against the selection and later the state government issued an additional select list on Jan 5, making 6800 more appointments from the reserved category candidates which was quashed by the single bench of the High Court.