Teacher Recruitment: HC stays results of 669 qualified candidates
The High Court yesterday stayed the results of 669 qualified candidates from Nilphamari and Barguna districts in the government primary school teacher recruitment examinations for six months on charges of violation of relevant rules.
The court also issued a rule asking authorities concerned to explain in four weeks why the results published on December 24 last year should not be declared illegal.
The bench of Justice Sheikh Hassan Arif and Justice Md Mahmud Hassan Talukder came up with the order and rule following a writ petition filed challenging the results.
The process for recruitment of 266 candidates from Nilphamari and 403 candidates from Barguna -- who qualified in the examinations -- will remain halted for six months following the HC order, said Advocate Rezaul Karim, a lawyer for the petitioners.
He said as per Section 7 of the primary teacher recruitment rules 2013, 60 percent of such teachers will be appointed from female candidates, 20 percent from “posshya” (dependent) quota and 20 percent from male candidates. But the conditions were not followed, he said.
He said 21 female candidates, who qualified in the preliminary and written tests but their results were not published, collectively filed the petition on January 14.
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