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The newly formed Uttar Pradesh Education Service Selection Commission has not even started functioning yet and cases have started against it in the courts. Even before the first formal meeting on Friday under the chairmanship of Acting Chairman and Principal Secretary Higher Education MP Aggarwal, about half a dozen cases have been filed in the High Court against the new commission. The petitioners have made the newly constituted commission a party in cases like arrears, ACP. At the same time, Standard Inter College Mauaima, a minority school in Prayagraj, has filed a case in the High Court by making the Commission a party due to non-recruitment of teachers for years because the responsibility of recruitment of teachers in minority institutions has also been given to this new commission.
In 2017, the then Secondary Education Minister Dr. Dinesh Sharma had banned the recruitment of teachers in minority colleges. Since then teachers have not been recruited. There are hindrances in running the college due to retirement of old teachers.
Commission will start work by taking the burden of cases
The newly formed commission is going to start with thousands of cases. Higher Education Service Commission and Secondary Education Service Selection Board are being merged into the new commission. At present more than two and a half thousand cases are pending against the selection board. At the same time, the Higher Education Service Commission is pursuing about 500 cases from the High Court to the Supreme Court. In the coming time, all the assets, liabilities as well as the burden of lawsuits of the Higher and Selection Board will go to the new commission. The acting president has constituted a committee in the first meeting held on Friday itself, which will recommend the selection of lawyers to represent the cases.
