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High court stays Rajnath's recruitment drive

Sharat Pradhan in Lucknow

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Rajnath Singh's much-touted dream of providing 40,000 jobs to the people of the state well before the elections received a setback on Thursday, when the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad high court threw a spanner in the works.

A high court bench comprising Justice U C Dhawan on Wednesday stayed the large-scale recruitment exercise that was being used by the chief minister as a major election tool.

The court order has directed the government to first adjust the retrenched employees of a public undertaking that was recently wound up.

This has come as a rude shock to the ruling BJP that was quite confident of encashing the issue of providing jobs to the people of the state in the upcoming elections.

The court also took a serious view of the government's failure to adhere to its earlier order of July 13, whereby the government was told to defer all new appointments in the clerical grades, until the retrenched employees were re-adjusted against vacancies in other government organisations.

The order was issued in response to a writ petition moved by some retrenched employees of the State Mineral Development Corporation.

The employees had contended that while the state government had decided to do away with their services on the plea that they were redundant, it was going for such large-scale recruitment in other organisations.

The court took cognisance of the plea when it first came up for hearing in July and issued a specific order favouring re-adjustment of the retrenched workers against vacant positions in other departments and organisations.

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