In the 69000 teacher recruitment case in UP, the Supreme Court has stayed the High Court’s decision which had ordered to prepare a fresh merit list according to the reservation provision. After the High Court’s order, the beneficiaries and losers of this decision are protesting in the state.
Some candidates had gone to the Supreme Court against the High Court’s order, during the hearing of which the Supreme Court has stayed the High Court’s decision and issued notices to all parties. The Supreme Court will now hear the case next on September 25. The High Court’s order has put old teachers under stress while the hope of the claimant candidates has risen.
After the order of the High Court, the candidates started protesting
When the Lucknow Bench High Court ordered the UP government to prepare a new merit list in the 69000 teacher recruitment case, protests started. On one hand, the selected candidates were protesting for fear of losing their jobs, while on the other hand, the unselected candidates started demanding the release of the new list as soon as possible. Protests started in districts across the state regarding this. Many candidates reached Lucknow and sat on a dharna.
A few days later, some candidates of teacher recruitment staged a sit-in in front of the Basic Education Directorate demanding that the decision given by the double bench of the High Court Lucknow be implemented. The candidates said that the government should implement the decision of the High Court soon and pave the way for appointment by giving justice to the reserved category candidates. The candidates had posters in their hands. It was written on it that the order has been issued, what is the delay now. This slogan was also raised.
After the court’s decision, the Yogi government had called a meeting
As soon as the Lucknow Bench of Allahabad High Court ordered to prepare a new merit list for 69000 teacher recruitment, the Yogi government also started its preparations. After the decision of the High Court, the Yogi government had called a meeting. In the meeting, CM Yogi had said that in the 69,000 teacher recruitment case, I have been informed about all the facts of the decision of the Hon’ble Court today by the Basic Education Department. The department has been instructed to take action in the light of the observation of the Hon’ble Supreme Court and the decision of the Lucknow Bench of the Hon’ble High Court Allahabad. The Uttar Pradesh government is of the clear opinion that the reserved category candidates must get the benefit of the reservation facility provided by the Constitution and no injustice should be done to any candidate.
What was the order of the High Court
The Lucknow bench of the High Court had ordered to prepare a new selection list by setting aside the selection list of 69000 Assistant Teacher Recruitment Examination-2019 released on June 1, 2020 and the selection list of 6800 candidates of January 5, 2022. In this regard, the court, while modifying the order of the single bench of March 13, 2023, also decided that the candidate of the reserved category will be ‘migrated’ to the general category if he comes in the merit prescribed for the general category.
The High Court had also said in the order that the benefit of vertical reservation given as per the instructions given by us will have to be given to the horizontal reservation as well. Along with this, the court, while not interfering with the decision of the single bench to reject the selection list of 5 January 2022 of additional 6800 candidates of the reserved category in the same recruitment examination, had ordered to complete the process of issuing a new list within three months.
The court had said that if any candidate currently working is affected while preparing the new list, then he should be given the benefit of the session so that the studies of the students are not affected. This decision was given by the division bench of Justice AR Masoodi and Justice Brijraj Singh while hearing 90 special appeals including Mahendra Pal and others together. In the said appeals, the decision of the single bench dated 13 March 2023 was challenged in which the single bench had reconsidered the selection list of 69000 candidates as well as rejected the selection list of 6800 candidates dated 5 January 2022.
