In view of alleged complaints of irregularities in preparation of the merit list of candidates for the special recruitment drive of primary teachers for Bachelor of Education (B.Ed.)/ Teacher Eligibility Test (TET) qualified unemployed youths, the education department has asked the officials to exercise utmost care and restraint in the ongoing counseling process which is underway in all the thirteen districts of state.
The left out candidates belonging to B.Ed. / TET unemployed federation staged a protest meeting in front of the education directorate for second consecutive day on Tuesday. These candidates demanded that the counseling process in all the districts should be stopped and a revised merit list should be prepared after removal of all discrepancies.
The president of B.Ed. / TET federation Baldev Singh Bhandari said that the department should trace those serving teachers who have applied in this recruitment drive and release a revised list. The left out candidates are alleging that names of more than 1,000 serving teachers are there in the merit list due to which the job prospects of unemployed youths are being marred. Bhandari said that many serving teachers have applied in this recruitment drive as they hoped to get posted in the district of their choice in this recruitment.
Taking cognisance of the protests over alleged irregularities The Primary education director R K Kunwar asked all the district Education officers to ensure proper screening of the all the candidates at the time of checking their documents during counseling. Taking to the Pioneer Kunwar said that the serving teachers should take No Objection Certificates (NOC) from department to appear in this recruitment drive. He said that the officers have also been asked to take utmost restraint while dealing with the candidates whose names do not figure in the merit list.
The department after much homework had released the final merit list of teachers. The merit list has 1410 candidates who would be deployed in Garhwal division while 1384 candidates are selected for appointment in Kumaon division. The department has used the criteria of year wise seniority of qualifying examination (B.Ed.) for preparing the final merit list.