Ensuring selection process is transparent and merit-based top priority , says new UPESSC chairman Prashant Kumar

The recently appointed president of the Uttar Pradesh Education Service Selection Commission (UPESSC) Prashant Kumar connected Sunday (December 21, 2025) said that his apical precedence is to guarantee that the enactment process is wholly transparent and merit-based with zero tolerance connected impropriety. Mr. Kumar, a retired 1990-batch Indian Police Service (IPS) serviceman and erstwhile U.P. Director General of Police (DGP) added that technology-based processes volition beryllium strengthened by the committee to transportation retired recruitment successful a timely manner, truthful that each eligible campaigner gets just opportunity. 

“My apical precedence is to guarantee that the enactment process is wholly transparent and merit-based with zero tolerance connected impropriety successful enactment with the policies of the honourable Chief Minister and the government,” Mr. Kumar said.  

He added, “Technology-based processes volition beryllium strengthened to transportation retired recruitment successful a timely manner, truthful that each eligible campaigner gets his/her just opportunity”. 

Speaking to The Hindu, the caller Uttar Pradesh Education Service Selection Commission president said, “The extremity is not conscionable appointment, it is to triumph the spot of the younker of Uttar Pradesh and the warrant of their aureate future”.

The Uttar Pradesh Education Service Selection Commission, established successful 2023 is entrusted with the work for the selection of teachers successful authorities schools, aided non-government colleges and aided number colleges, aided non-government intermediate colleges, higher secondary schools, schools tally and managed by the U.P. Basic Education Board, aided inferior precocious schools and their affiliated superior schools, aided number inferior precocious schools and their affiliated superior schools crossed the state. In caller times it faced questions implicit postponement of assorted recruitment and eligibility tests similar Trained Graduate Teacher (TGT) and PGT.