Giving a major relief to teacher aspirants, the Andhra Pradesh High Court on Tuesday quashed a petition filed by 69 B Ed candidates challenging the DSC-2008 notification issued on December 6th, and also the orders of the AP Administrative Tribunal on August 31st, 2009, passed in favour of D Ed candidates providing 30% posts to them.
Disposing the petition as not valid at this juncture, the court directed the State government to start counselling for selected teacher candidates from Wednesday. It said that it would not interfere in the recruitment process.
Following the court's directions, the government released the selected candidates' lists from all districts in the State except Anantapur. The Education Director, meanwhile, said that the recruitment process would be completed within 2 days.
Several B Ed candidates on Monday had approached the AP High Court seeking suspension of GO no. 62 issued on October 29th, which provided reservation for 30% secondary grade teacher posts for candidates with D Ed qualification, and sought direction to government to stop the recruitment processes.
One Pathuri Uma Maheshwar Reddy and 69 others filed the petition in the court on Monday.
When the issue was pending before the apex court, the government, after obtaining the legal opinion from the Advocate-General and from a senior counsel of the Supreme Court, issued an order on October 29th, by announcing the schedule for DSC-2008 selections.
The GO 62 specifically states that the recruitment shall be in accordance with GO 28.