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UP Assistant Teachers Recruitment Exam: HC says UP govt’s decision to raise cut-off for filling 69000 posts correct

Hindustan Times, Lucknow | By
May 06, 2020 06:01 PM IST

In a major relief to the Yogi Adityanath government, the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad high court on Wednesday confirmed raising cutoff by the state government as 65% for general candidates and 60% for reserved category.

In a major relief to the Yogi Adityanath government, the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad high court on Wednesday said that UP government’s decision to raise cut-off marks in the exam for selection of 69000 assistant teachers in the state was correct. It also directed the state government to complete the selection process within three months.

Earlier, the state government had raised the cut-off for selection of assistant teachers to 65 percent (from 45%) for general candidates and 60 percent (from 40%) for reserved category candidates. A single Judge order had quashed the state government’s order through which the qualifying marks for the examination was raised.

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State and other aggrieved candidates had challenged the single judge order. A division bench of justices Pankaj Kumar Jaiswal and Karunesh Singh Pawar pronounced the judgement in favour of state government’s decision on raising cut-offs in the chamber on the special appeals on Wednesday. Advocate general Raghvendra Singh had appeared for the state, supporting the rasing of cutoff by the state government, state counsel Ranvijay Singh said.

The government order, dated January 7, 2019, had fixed 65% qualifying marks for general category candidates (from 45%) and 60% for the reserved category candidates (from 40%). The fact that it was issued a day after the recruitment exam on January 6 had prompted the job seekers to move the court.

The single judge order dated March 29, 2019, which had come as a relief for thousands of shiksha mitras, directed the secretary of examination regulatory authority to declare the result as per the old criteria of 45% and 40% qualifying marks within three months. During the hearing, the petitioners’ counsel had submitted that the government’s decision was arbitrary and discretionary.

The state government had maintained that the qualifying percentage was raised to ensure that better teachers get selected.

The UP government had issued the notification for recruitment of 69,000 assistant teachers in the state on December 5, 2018.

The court had reserved the verdict on March 3 on the bunch of appeals after detailed final hearing on the same, which was going on for more than six months.

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