After announcing a major recruitment drive on Friday, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has directed officials to complete the process for recruitment of 31,661 teachers in the Basic Education department within a week.
He reiterated his government’s commitment to providing opportunities for employment, including jobs to youth of the state.
A government spokesman said that the Basic Education department had conducted the Teachers Eligibility Test (TET) for recruitment of 69,000 teachers on January 6, 2019.
He said as per the government order issued on January 7, 2019, the cut off percentage in this test was fixed at a minimum 65 per cent for general category and 60 per cent for backward and other reserved categories.
He said some examinees filed writ petitions in the High Court against this GO and the court, on March 29, 2020, passed an order in favour of the state government on the main petition of Ram Sharan Maurya.
In this regard, deciding the Special Leave Petition (SLP) No. 11198/2020 Ram Sharan Maurya versus State government and others, the Supreme Court on May 21, 2020, directed the state government to complete the recruitment process on all the posts except the posts of those assistant teachers which were held by Shiksha Mitras.
Hence, the chief minister had ordered to fill up 31,661 posts in a week’s time, the spokesman added.