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UPSESSB, UPESSC Recruitment: In the newly formed Uttar Pradesh Education Service Selection Commission, there is no provision for approval or disapproval of penal cases of about 63 thousand teachers and principals working in 4512 aided secondary schools of the state. Due to this, the reinstatement of teachers which has been pending for years has got stuck. After the new commission came into existence, the cases pending in the Uttar Pradesh Secondary Education Service Selection Board are now being sent back to the District School Inspectors.
A similar case was sent to the DIOS of Bareilly on April 2 on behalf of Selection Board Deputy Secretary Naval Kishore. The case related to the punishment of Anup Kumar Mishra, assistant teacher of National Agriculture and Industry Inter College, Sirauli Bareilly, was sent to the selection board on 31 December 2015. The penalty committee ensured a personal hearing on January 11, 2022, in which teacher Anoop Kumar Mishra arrived but the manager remained absent. For this reason a decision could not be taken on the matter. The matter could not be settled due to the expiry of the tenure of all the members of the Selection Board on April 8, 2022 and the Chairman on April 8, 2023. Meanwhile, the notification of the new commission was issued on 21 August 2023. With this the Secondary Education Service Selection Act 1982 came to an end. There was a provision for hearing of criminal cases in the 1982 Act itself. Deputy Secretary Naval Kishore has written in the letter that there is no prescribed procedure for approval/disapproval of punishment in the new commission. Therefore, sending the case back to Bareilly, instructions have been given to take action as per rules.
No decision in more than a hundred cases after years
More than 150 penal cases against teachers and principals of aided colleges are pending in the selection board for years. Most of these cases are related to termination of service of teachers. According to Uttar Pradesh Secondary Education Service Selection Board Rules 1982, managers had to take approval from the selection board before punishment. Now with the formation of the new commission this system has ended.
