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UP Teacher Recruitment: CM Yogi Adityanath to hold meeting on Allahabad HC order today

A division bench of the Allahabad High Court has ordered that the state government issue a fresh merit list for the appointment of 69,000 assistant teachers.

Published on: Aug 18, 2024, 09:22:01 IST
By , Lucknow
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Chief minister Yogi Adityanath is likely to discuss and take a call on Sunday about his government’s future course of action on the the directive of Lucknow bench of the Allahabad high court for preparing a fresh selection list within three months regarding the appointment of 69,000 assistant teachers.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath (HT FILE)
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath (HT FILE)

Those aware of the development said the state government is studying the high court order and its fallout. It is likely to work out ways to ensure that the implementation of the high court order does not cause any harm to anybody.

Most senior ministers and officers of the state government either remained unavailable or refused to comment on the issue.

Minister for parliamentary affairs Suresh Khanna, when asked to comment on the high court order, however, said, “We are studying the HC order and the state government will ensure that no injustice is caused to anybody.”

Others aware of the development confirmed that the chief minister has convened a meeting to discuss the issue on Sunday.

A division bench of the Allahabad high court comprising Justice AR Masoodi and Justice Brij Raj Singh has ordered that the state government should issue a fresh list while disposing of the 91 special appeals filed into the matter by candidates challenging the single-judge bench judgment of March 13, 2023.

The state government appears to be having not many options that include either challenging the high court order or implementing the same. The chief minister’s move to discuss the issue is being viewed in the backdrop of the opposition’s accusations that the BJP was anti-reservation. The state government may not like to send any message that displeases any section of the society.

  • Umesh Raghuvanshi
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    Umesh Raghuvanshi

    Umesh Raghuvanshi is an award-winning journalist with nearly four decades of demonstrated experience in the profession. He is the author of Ayodhya: The Gods Are Liberated. He is skilled in storytelling and newswriting, and writes on politics, governance, legislature, finance, environment, and social issues. He is based in Lucknow, is well-travelled, and has covered several national and international events, as well as all assembly and parliament elections in Uttar Pradesh since 1984. He has been a visiting scholar at the Graduate School of Journalism, University of California, Berkeley, USA, and a Metcalf Fellow at the Metcalf Institute of Marine and Environmental Reporting, University of Rhode Island, USA. He is a science graduate from DBS College, Dehradun, and holds an MA in Political Science from DAV (PG) College, Dehradun. He won the KC Kulish International Merit Award for excellence in journalism (2015) and received it in New Delhi in 2017. He also won a competition organised by the United Nations Environment Programme DTIE OzonAction Programme in 2009 that assessed coverage of the interlinkages between ozone and climate change. He was awarded in Beijing, China, in 2010. He started his career with a Dehradun-based English daily in the early 1980s and later worked with The Pioneer too.Read More