In this case, on finding reservation discrepancy in the 69000 teacher recruitment examination of council schools, the High Court had canceled the list of 6800 candidates on 13 March 2023 and ordered the state government to re-examine the entire list.
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The Lucknow bench of Allahabad High Court has ordered to issue a fresh list of selected candidates for the 69 thousand assistant teacher recruitment held in 2019. The court has directed to prepare a new selection list in three months as per the rules, bypassing the selection lists of 1 June 2020 and 5 January 2022. This decision of the court has given a big blow to the state government. At the same time, the service of teachers working on the basis of the previous list has also come under threat.
The division bench of Justice A R Masoodi and Justice Brijraj Singh has given this decision on 90 special appeals of Ashok Yadav and other candidates challenging the decision of a single bench given on March 13 last year in the matter of not properly following the reservation quota. The court had reserved the decision after completing the hearing in March last. The court pronounced the decision last Tuesday. The decision was uploaded on the High Court website on Friday.
If any working candidate is affected, then give him the benefit of this session
The court said that in the new selection list, the reservation policy should be followed as per the Reservation Act 1994 under the rules of 1981. If the merit of a reserved category candidate is equal to that of the general category, then he will come under the general category. Under these instructions, reservation will be given in the upper order. The court also directed that if any working candidate is affected in preparing the list, then the state government or the competent authority will provide him the benefit of end of session. So that the students do not have to suffer the consequences. According to these instructions, the court modified the orders and instructions of the single bench. In this case, issues of reservation dispute were raised in the recruitment of 69 thousand primary assistant teachers.
