UP Govt to appeal against HC order on Urdu teachers’ appointment

“The Government will follow all legal procedures to safeguard the opportunity of training and teaching for all those who had been selected and are undergoing training,” Shailesh Krishna, Principal Secretary to the Chief Minister, said at a hurriedly called press conference on Sunday.

However, Krishna did not clarify the Government’s grounds for moving the Special Appeal. “We have not received the copy of the judgment as yet. Therefore it is difficult to comment,” he said. He also could not specify how the Government would justify the appointment of Urdu teachers in primary schools, where Urdu is not even a subject.

The Allahabad High Court had on Saturday scrapped the government order issued by the Mulayam Singh Government for appointments of Urdu teachers in primary schools. The court had observed that there was no need to appoint Urdu teachers in primary schools on the ground that “these posts did not exist in these schools”.

A petition in this connection was filed by one Sambul Naqvi who had prayed to the court that the Mulayam Singh Government had carried out recruitments while ignoring the fact that these posts were not “officially declared vacant”. How could recruitment be made on posts which are non-existent, Naqvi pleaded. The court had reserved its judgment in last April.