Apparently frustrated by the State Government not heeding their demand of increasing the number of vacancies in the recently advertised posts of primary teachers, two members of the Federation of Bachelor of Education (B Ed)/ Teachers Eligibility Test (TET) qualified unemployed candidates started a hunger-strike at the education directorate on Monday.
The members who are on hunger strike are Devendra Kumar Kapadi and Dipak Kumar. The federation has also threatened that the agitation would be intensified if the number of vacancies is not raised to 6200 soon. President Manveer Rawat said the education department on a RTI query had stated on February 02 that a total of 4450 posts of primary teachers are vacant in education department but now the department has released advertisement for only 1000 odd posts. He said March 31 is last date till which a B Ed qualified candidate can be recruited as primary teacher so the Government should increase number of vacancies for the benefit of unemployed youth.
national games of 2018 and it has raised the level of enthusiasm among the youngsters of the State.