HC paves way for Urdu teachers appointment

Allahabad, Nov 28 (UNI) The Allahabad High Court today quashed the May 14 order of a single judge, whereby, the entire exercise undertaken to appoint 13,000 Urdu BTC teachers during the previous Mulayam Singh Yadav regime in primary schools of the state was declared illegal.

Quashing the order, a division bench comprising Chief Justice H L Gokhle and Justice Pankaj Mittal directed the state government to proceed with the selection of Urdu teachers through special BTC, in pursuance of three government orders of February 16, 2005, March 18, 2006 and September 5, 2006.

The single judge had stated that no urdu teacher could be selected/appointed in primary schools of the state as there was no created posts for them. The court had subsequently quashed the advertisements published in persuance thereof.

The judge had maintained that the admissions granted in respect of the said course were illegal and District Institute of Education and Training (DIET) cannot be pemitted to provide any further training to the students The Mulayam Singh Yadav government had decided on February 16, 2005, to conduct two years special BTC training course Urdu for appointment of assistant teachers in various institutions established by the UP Basic Shiksha Parishad, Allahabad.

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