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 he tall claims of clean, effi-  Allahabad court   in the people about transparency and   tion was conducted, many candidates   tage of the situation and alleged that,
 cient and transparent gov-  fairness in the selections. Some aspir-  registered their allegations during talks   “BJP government has committed a big
 ernance were once again   ants have also knocked the doors of    with Tehelka , while they went to meet   scam in the appointment of teachers in
 shattered when the selec-  Allahabad High Court.  former Chief Minister and Samajwadi   the state. It has cheated the job aspirant
 T tion  process  adopted  by   detects fraud in    The state capital is besieged with   Party president Akhilesh Yadav. Puja   youths and is playing with the future of
 the UP government for the selection   marches and protests by the unsuc-  from Aurriya district (R.N.3535100429)   BTC teachers.”
 of 68,000 assistant teachers in the ba-  cessful candidates who could not be   alleged, “Evaluation of carbon copy of   On the other front, pressing the
 sic education sector of the state failed   UP teacher   selected in the final list as they are    my answer sheet with declared answer  demand for immediate appointment,
 to pass the test of its judicial scrutiny.   alleging organised scam in the selec-  keys does not match at all. I must se-  the passed candidates for BTC teachers’
 The court summoned the records of   tion process. They are not satisfied with  cure 80 marks whereas the result sheet  examination, were mercilessly cane
 answer sheet and other evaluating   high-level probe and are demand -  gave me just 37 marks.” Manbodh (R.N.   charged, manhandled, arrested and
 records with the carbon copy of the   selection process  ing CBI probe into the matter. “In this    35381105203) from Pratapgarh said,    deported to secluded place after mid-
 candidate and noticed discrepancies.   examination, a list of 23 examinees was  “Instead of 74 marks I got 64 marks.”  night on 8th September 2018 by police
 The competition for Assistant Teacher   obtained, who had not cleared exami-  Yatindra  Kumar  (4064136)  from   force from the office premises of Direc-
 Recruitment Examination 2018 (ATRE       Hathras district levelled the serious   tor Basic Education, where they were
 2018) was conducted by the newly cre-  The reports of widespread   charge of forgery with his answer sheet,  staging continuous sit-in for the last
 ated Examination Regulatory Authority    “Scanned copy of my answer sheet re-  nine days. Police did not even spare the
 (ERC).  corruption and inefficiency in   corded that I secured 91 marks out of   protesting women present at the site of
 Amid the charges of large-scale cor-  UP’s education sector came   150, but in the results I was declared   the peaceful demonstration.
 ruption and bungling in the selection   to light when a court found         The ATRE-2018 was conducted to fill
 process, the expose actually came up                                     68,500 vacant posts of teachers in gov-
 before Lucknow Bench of Allahabad   the answer sheets had been   The manner in   ernment primary schools in pursuance
 High Court where a scheduled caste   replaced to select ‘favoured’   which barcodes   to advertisement dated 23.01.2018. More
 candidate, Sonika Devi, filed a writ peti-                               than one lakh aspirants had appeared
 tion claiming that her answer sheet was   candidates. MUDIT MATHUR   in the copies   in the exam, whose results were de-
 replaced as candidates who secured   reports  were exchanged             clared in August. After the declaration
 less than her marks have been called                                     of the result of the written examina-
 for counselling scheduled for the first   and evidence                   tion of the recruitment, answer key was
 week of September. Meanwhile, Justice  independent enquiry into the murky   destructed itself   issued by the Examination Regulatory
 Irshad Ali, provisionally allowed the pe-  affairs and shall inform the court about   Authority U.P. Lucknow on 13.8.2018.
 titioner to attend the counselling. The   its outcome. The angry Chief Minis-  speaks of fairness   However, only 41,556 could clear it. The
 court will resume its further proceed-  ter Yogi Adityanath immediately sus-  in the selecting   exam was held at 248 centres in the 18
 ings in the matter on 17th September.  pended the secretary ERC, Sutta Singh,   divisions of UP. The first district alloca-
 When the answer sheet produced   and ordered disciplinary action against   process  tion list for counselling was announced
 by the Secretary, ERA was compared   her as per rules, besides removing    on August 31, 2018, while second dis-
 with the carbon copy of the petitioner   Secretary,  Basic  Shiksha  Parishad,    trict allocation list for counselling was
 before the court it did not tally. Advo-  Sanjay Sinha.  failed, securing just 41 marks.” He felt   declared on September 2, 2018.
 cate General then persuaded the court   On his directives, later the state gov-  that his answer sheets appeared as    At a time when BJP is preparing for
 to allow him to produce before it bar   ernment formed a three-member com-  replaced  with  one  Miss  Sita  who    rejuvenating its popularity graphs, Yogi
 code bearing on the copy for tallying,   mittee headed by principal secretary,   • Learning graft  Discrepancies in teachers’   nation, but were declared as qualified,”   secured 41 marks, but in results, she just  Adityanath is busy showcasing the pro-
 to clarify whether this is the copy of   Sanjay R Bhoosreddy, Vedpati Mishra,   recruitment in UP affect future generations  they alleged.  got 91 marks.  poor development initiatives to make a
 the petitioner or not. Court agreed to   project director of UP Education for All,   They have been staging a continu-  Sumit Kumar from western UP Am-  front to challenge the united opposition
 his suggestion but when Sri Dharmen-  and Sarvendra Vikram Bahadur Singh,   ernment feel scam of such a big level   ous protest in the state capital. The   roha (R.N.12130302210) complained, “I   in 2019 general elections. Amid prepa-
 dra Shahi, Technical Expert, examined   Director of Basic Education.   could not be possible without the active   exam was conducted on May 27, 2018,   just got 45 marks whereas my answer   rations to promote its flagship schemes
 the copy and found that the bar code   Defining the terms of reference    connivance between examination con-  whereas the government modified cut-  sheet accounts for 75 marks.” Simi -  promising to provide more and more
 bearing on the first page does not tally   assigned to this high level commit-  ducting computer agency and senior   off criterion for the various reserved   lar charges were advanced by Sudhir   jobs, such oppressive steps with young
 with the bar code bearing on the rest of    tee, Manisha Trighatia, Secretary, Basic   officers of the department. The manner   and unreserved categories on 21st May   Singh of Allahabad, Gourav Shukla   job seekers can prove counterproduc-
 inner pages of the answer sheet. It left   Education said, “The committee will   in which barcodes in the copies were   2018 just six days before the actual    of Faizabad, Vimal Kumar Mishra of    tive. Such unfavourable situation could
 no room for the court but to entertain   probe the anomaly in assistant teacher  exchanged itself speaks of fairness in   examination date. New norms reduced   Deoria, Rajnish of Bhadoi, Bhim Sing   be wisely averted but due to gross mis-
 the petition and grant interim relief to   recruitment process and fix account-  the selecting process. The reports of   the number of successful candidates to  of Basti, Gaya Prasad Yadav, Rishikesh    management, insensitivity and lack of
 the complainant.  ability of those involved. The panel will   destruction of evidence by burning   41,556 whereas requisition was notified  Paswan and many others who sur -  concern in the administration about
 Failing to satisfy court’s pointed que-  submit its report in seven days and will  the answer sheets by the suspended   for 68,500 assistant teachers.     rounded this correspondent pressing   the deteriorating education sector, it
 ries, the red-faced Advocate General   suggest measures to plug loopholes to   officer in Allahabad office have been   Most of the protesters had similar   to note down their details.  happened.
 Raghvendra Singh assured the court   prevent a recurrence of the scam.”  videographed and the video going viral   grievances. Expressing their dissatis-  Addressing the protesting candi-
 that the government would conduct an   Highly placed sources in the gov-  on social media further creates doubts   faction over the manner this examina-  dates, Akhilesh Yadav took the advan-  LETTERS@TEHELKA.COM



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