The matter of the High Court’s double bench order to prepare a new selection list due to reservation dispute in the recruitment of 69000 teachers in council primary schools was not yet settled that the issue of EWS has cropped up in this recruitment. In this recruitment, economically backward (EWS) candidates had filed a petition in the High Court demanding 10 percent reservation. Candidates say that the notification of Assistant Teacher Recruitment Examination (ATRE) for 69000 recruitment was issued by the Examination Regulatory Authority on 1 December 2018.
The state government is not giving the benefit of reservation to the EWS category by considering the recruitment process to start from this date, whereas the government has admitted in the case of Ramsharan Maurya vs Uttar Pradesh Government in the Supreme Court that ATRE is an eligibility test which does not guarantee a job to any candidate if he passes. Recruitment will be considered to start from the time the district application process starts because the post of primary teacher is a district level recruitment. Dharmendra Mishra, state president of General Category Competitive Student Front, says that in this regard, EWS should get the benefit of reservation because the advertisement for 69000 teacher recruitment was issued by the Secretary of Basic Education Council on 25 May 2020 and after the 103rd amendment in the Constitution, the Central Government implemented EWS reservation on 12 January 2019 and it was implemented in UP on 18 February 2019.
Hearing will be held on October 16
However, the single bench of the High Court rejected this petition. After this, the candidates of EWS category appealed in the double bench. During the hearing on September 17, when the advocate of Basic Education Council said that the case of 69000 recruitment is pending in the Supreme Court and the next hearing is to be held on September 23, the double bench postponed the hearing. The hearing of this case in the double bench has now been scheduled for October 16.