PRAYAGRAJ, Nov. 4 -- The Allahabad high court on Monday upheld the validity of clause four of a state government order dated September 9, 2024, which stipulates the minimum eligibility qualifications for the post of assistant teacher of a recognised junior high school shall be a graduation degree from a university recognised by the University Grants Commission (UGC) and a teacher's training course recognised by the state government or National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE). A division bench of Chief Justice Arun Bhansali and Justice Kshitij Shailendra allowed a special appeal filed by the UP government and its instrumentalities. The state government had challenged the order dated September 24, 2024 whereby a single judge of the high court had allowed a writ petition filed by Yashank Khandelwal and nine others. The single-judge bench had quashed clause four of the government order dated September 9, 2024 to the extent it imposes the condition of graduation being the eligible educational qualification for admission to the diploma in elementary education course (D.El.Ed. course) run by the district institute of education and training (DIET). The division bench said, "Therefore, if the state government, in every government order, right from 1998 till today, has prescribed graduation as the minimum qualification for taking admission in B.T.C./D.El.Ed. course, the same being in consonance with the rules of 1981, cannot be said to be an arbitrary provision."...