After much delay and protests, the recruitment process for 69,000 assistant teachers for the reserved category candidates is finally underway.
The reserved category candidates who have been alleging discrepancies in the reservation process of the recruitment for 69,000 assistant teachers met with UP CM Yogi Adityanath. Thousands of candidates had been protesting regarding the same for several months.
The CM then gave instructions to the basic education department to speedily resolve the issues. As of today, the recruitment process has now begun.
After the two-stage recruitment process on the posts of 1,37,000, the new recruitment process has also started on the 17000 posts that remained vacant.
New dates for recruitment of 69,000 assistant teachers in UP
The selection list of reserved category candidates will be ready on December 28 while the test will be held on December 29.
The selection list will come on the website of State Informatics Center on December 30, and the document verification will be done between January 3 and January 5, 2022
Appointment letters will be issued on January 6.
Why was there such a big delay?
The recruitment process was to hire teachers for primary and upper primary government schools across the state and the process took two years.
The vacancy notification had originally been announced in December 2018 but due to the pandemic and a long-drawn-out legal battle between the high court and the Supreme Court after some candidates filed a lawsuit, the appointment could only be completed in December 2020.
The CM even distributed appointment letters to a few of them while others received their letters from locals MLAs, MPs and other ministers of the government.
However, many candidates who didn’t make it into the 69,000 recruitments soon alleged foul play by the basic education department for not adhering to the reservation policy and started protests on the same.
The protestors had also taken out a candle march and faced lathi charge from the police that drew comments from the opposition parties.
