Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Thursday announced to appoint over 69,000 assistant basic teachers in the state, after completing the process within a week.
CM Yogi's statement came a day after the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court paved the way for completing the process for appointment of assistant basic teachers.
A division bench of Justices P K Jaiswal and K S Pawar passed the order on different special appeals filed by the state government as well as the private petitioners individually.
As per information received, the examination for the post of assistant teacher in the primary schools of the state was conducted on 6 Jan last year and no cut-off marks were released by then.
A day after the examination, the government said that qualifying marks for general category candidates and reserved category candidates for appointment as basic teacher are 65 percent and 60 percent respectively.
A group of applicants went to court to protest against it, alleging that the cutoff details should have been released earlier.
The division bench has in fact set aside the single bench order that had quashed the government order of a fixed criteria of 65 percent qualifying marks for general category candidates and 60 percent for reserved category candidates for appointment as basic teacher.
The single bench had said that the minimum cut off marks would be 45 per cent for general and 40 per cent for reserved candidates.
However, after the single judge bench order is now set aside by the division bench, the criteria set by the state government would be followed.
In its vehement plea, the state government had submitted that the cut off was increased to previous selection process for the purpose of selecting best candidates and there was nothing illegal in its decision.
The division bench had completed the hearing on March 3 and reserved its verdict.
Pronouncing the verdict on Wednesday, it allowed the special appeals, giving major relief to the state government. The process of the appointment is almost already complete on the strength on the interim direction of the division bench issued on May 29 last year and only result is to be declared finally.
With inputs from PTI
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